Word: filth
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...Weeks in Another Town. The movie business has long suffered a fascination with its own filth. Bombshell, Sunset Boulevard, The Bad and the Beautiful: the vaults are loaded with ugly stories about the beautiful people. A few of these films are works of considerable art; some of them are honest hate letters from people Hollywood has hurt; most of them, and that includes this picture, are what is known in the trade as pay dirt...
Strangers in the City. The camera noses its way along the city streets like an alley cat. It sniffs at battered ashcans spilling over with decaying garbage, a cornucopia of filth. It paws dirty shreds of newspapers that flutter along the sooty pavements like bedraggled kites. It blinks up at row on row of crumbling brownstones, their grimy windows staring back emptily at the street like sightless eyes. The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle, and keens a somber threnody on Spanish guitar strings. The cross-cultural music is apt, for this...
...publisher peddles filth through the mails. In some public square, a Communist advocates violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Elsewhere, federal employee blabs security secrets to anyone who will listen. Long before a man accused of murder comes to trial, a newspaper recommends hanging. What should be done about the pornographer, the Communist, the spiller of state secrets, the newspaper that beats justice...
...their senior year, nineteen-twelve continued their treeks to the athletic grounds, but they complained about it. "There is no reason why climate-harrassed throats shoul be further insulted by the steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement on the way to Soldiers' Field," they grumbled, and issued a plea for "the effective use of an oil-cart on the street near the field...
...Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded with paint.'' He did not think the U.S. would go for it for long. "I per sonally believe," said Ike, "that...