Word: filth
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...Filth City. The most docile dogs irk city dwellers by tripping strollers with long leashes, muddying lobbies, preempting elevators and perpetually sniffing people. Dogs can give humans tuberculosis, create allergies and cause assorted eye and intestinal infections. New York Post Columnist Pete Hamill, a relentless dog baiter, speaks for many in labeling his town "Filth City." As he puts it: "Nobody can tell me that all those piles left around the streets are good for us, no matter how many burglars are scared off when the dogs are home...
...worst senses, with nudity, simulated sexual acts and the unfettered use of four-letter words. Hair, Che and Oh! Calcutta! belong to this group, as does the latest entry, The Dirtiest Show in Town. Those who deplore these shows regard them as the flagrant commercial exploitation of filth. That attitude is far too simple; when three out of the top four non-fiction bestsellers across the nation are titled Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), The Sensuous Woman and Human Sexual Inadequacy, the stage is bound to reflect such rapt, obvious and pervasive...
Cambodia won its independence from the French in 1953 without fighting and managed for years to live next door to the Viet Nam War without becoming a combatant. Now the struggle for Indochina, with all its suffering and sorrow, its clutter and filth, has engulfed the ancient kingdom of the Khmers. Last week TIME Correspondent Don Neff filed this report from its capital...
...little, since I now felt safer in Roxbury than in New York. But I wasn't any happier about seeing drunks sleeping in the streets. And maybe my memory isn't as vivid as I had always thought it was, but this time New York seemed like rivers of filth flowing down one way streets between canyons of concrete buildings...
...side, law-and-order, honor, country, decency pitted against treason, anarchy, filth, immorality. On the other, freedom, justice, "the people" against entrenched power, blind chauvinism, blood lust and repression. Two visions: two ghastly caricatures: accepted as truths by more and more Americans...