Word: filth
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Having already banned alcohol and pop music broadcasts, cracked down on prostitution and drugs, and closed or muzzled 40 publications in Iran, Khomeini showed no sign of letting up on his systematic campaign to cleanse the country of the "filth" of foreign influence. "There is no room for play in Islam. It is dead serious about everything." he declared earlier to a gathering of supporters at Qum's Madreseh Faizieh Islamic academy. "We want mujaheds [crusaders], not drunken revelers...
When Ellerbee himself is gunned down behind the counter, he goes to Hell, where he joins armies of sinners double-timing through fire and filth...
Though the swami faces up to 20 years in a Swiss slammer, he is unrepentant and rejects the charges as part of the "filth spreading round the world." Whatever the law decides, placid Winterthur will not soon forget the time the cuckoos escaped from their clocks...
...uneducated, the politically unorganized. In fetid Netzahualcdyotl, a slum of 2.6 million people that grows like a tumor on the outskirts of Mexico City, several comunidades have cooperated to help protest rising bus fares and appalling health conditions. Human feces lie in the streets. Contaminated water adds to the filth and contributes to a death rate of more than 50% among children less than four years of age. Before Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico in January, hundreds of comunidad members from Netzahualcoyotl and elsewhere in Mexico signed a letter to the Pontiff protesting such conditions throughout...
...counterboy with vague cowboy dreams of glory. TV's Hal Linden, playing Grant's stuffy suburban husband, makes some thing fresh out of a stereotype, as does Faracy. Unfortunately, these performers must share the screen with Grant and Candy Clark, who turn already hysterical women into harridans. "Filth! Filth!" Grant screams at Gortner, in one of the movie's many unwatchable moments...