Word: filth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is plenty to investigate. Early in the play, we learn that mental patients wander around the town's hospital on their own, reeking of vodka and filth. Charity cases are left to die. The town cop is a chronic alcoholic who terrorizes the populace. The postmaster opens all the mail and pockets the letters that amuse him. As for the mayor, he is an embezzler who never forgets a good bribe...
...ingredient for their survival at home. One social worker described a pre-placement visit to a family: "They peeped out their windows when I came, to see if I was someone they should be afraid of, and they had almost no food in the house, and were living in filth." The one parent caring for the children is usually emotionally disturbed, drug-addicted or alcoholic. Those who abuse their children were often victims themselves, a generation earlier...
...been advertising for one in newspapers. Local opinion was that although Flynt had no personal enemies, many people hated him for his opinions and his rambunctious life. Said Lawrenceville Mayor Rhodes Jordan, 60: "Somebody was sending Flynt a message, that they don't want his type of filth around...
...student of human nature, absorbed. What drives the le Carre fans is not absurd schemes to take over the world, nor, of course, masturbatory fantasies, replete with sadistic fiends and willing damsels-in-distress. Rather, these are stories about men and women struggling to keep their heads above the filth that has become their lives, trying to rationalize the job they must do with a moral code that they have already stretched to the breaking point. For le Carre, those stories come together to create a masterpiece of entertainment. For the reader willing to think about them closely, they...
...Youngstown, Ohio, the permanent dirty haze in the air and the oily filth in the slow-running Mahoning River have long spelled money. For 85 years, Youngstown has prided itself on being the quintessential steel city, the capital of "America's Ruhr Valley" and more heavily dependent on this one industry for jobs than any other town of the same size. But now Youngstowners-and even more the citizens of neighboring Campbell and Struthers-live with a nightmare that the air will one day soon be clean and fish will again swim in the Mahoning. Last week Youngstown Sheet...