Word: filth
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...Seine is a river of filth; yet Parisians willingly drink its waters. The Moskva traces an equally grimy course through Moscow, but Muscovites will soon be able to hold a glass under the kitchen faucet and savor Moskva water straight. The citizens of Singapore and Amsterdam, too, will shortly be able to drink from their polluted rivers. Between the stream and the lip, in all these cases, is a remarkable process developed in France that changes effluent into elixir...
Less controversial is the law's goal of cleaning up Venice. One source of pollution is the Venetians' time-honored habit of dumping their sewage into the canals and depending on the tides to flush the city clean. To stop the filth at its source, Venice will now build its first sewage system. In addition the law provides funds to help homeowners convert their oil heating systems -which now belch sulfur oxides into the air-to nonpolluting methane gas. The switch is necessary because the sulfurous fumes mix with the salty air and rot Venice's marble...
...Protestant organizations, when confronted with a series of songs which openly glorify and urge the murder of Catholics, says lamely, "We have not been convicted of incitement to violence." He then says in answer to a pointed question by Ophuls that the Catholics really are nothing more than "filth and scum and scruff because that's the way they've been brought up--something has gone wrong somewhere and that's one place to look...
...know what the food in the Faculty Club will taste like in ten years, but I know it tastes like poison now. I don't know what DeWolfe Street will look like in ten years, but I know as I walk down to Leverett House that the filth and litter of it weigh on my soul. I don't know what the state of the practicing arts will be like at Harvard in ten years, but I know that, with the exception of the students in Music 180 who gave a stunning recital before Christmas, they are in the doldrums...
...exasperating, a rococo grandeur that has grown somehow galling, for it is the disease of a talent bankrupt for substance. Fellini has lost his sense of connection. The camera flits over the poverty-ridden, the deformed, the filth and litter of fascism and war, turning the plagues of Rome into perverse filmic display...