Word: filth
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...lifted himself slowly out of his own filth, he has reduced the likelihood that a child will be exposed to a virus that is mostly flushed down the drain. And the later the age of exposure, the greater is the danger that the infection will develop into a grave, feverish and perhaps paralytic illness. The reason why most of the populace seems to be immune, says Dr. Paul, is simply: "We have had it." But without knowing it. As U.S. standards of hygiene have gone up, so has the age range in which paralytic polio strikes. Nowadays. 22% of victims...
Warmth from a Light Blub. Meanwhile, as he "lived like an animal wallowing around in dirt and filth," the Chinese subjected him to endlessly repeated accusations and endless hints that it would be easy to kill him. Bit by bit he wrote what the Chinese wanted (as one reward they allowed him to warm his hands on a light bulb). "The hardest thing I have to explain," he said, "is how a man can sit down and write something he knows is false and yet to sense it, to feel it, to make it seem real...
...theme of grim reality punctuates both the filming and the acting. Director Julien Duvivier lets his camera dwell at length upon the filth and vice of the Casbah. He delights in picturing squalid, old women sitting in doorways or sunning themselves upon the endless steps and terraces of the native quarter. Occasionally, however, the emotional implications of both setting and plot become cloying. A scene in which a fat hag tearfully recalls her past success on the stage turns maudlin, while the murder of an informer has all the qualities of an old time serial...
During the preparatory period. I wallowed in the dirt and filth; I was purposely kept unshaven and denied haircuts to the point where I was filthy as a tramp. I [was kept] under the constant surveillance of a guard who was never more than perhaps ten yards away, and who at night would awaken me at least hourly by shining his flashlight in my eyes until I woke up ... During the exhaustion phase. I was made to write continuously, over a period of about three weeks, from early morning until dark, always against a deadline, under pressure of two interrogators...
...want you to remember your father and mother, who need you and are waiting for you." The P.W. wrenched at his guards. "You lie, you lie!" he cried. "My mother and father are dead and so are my brothers. You killed them, and you too will die in filth! You are all Russian slaves." The Indian chairman told the guards to take the P.W. back to his compound-and eventual freedom. The P.W. left, still cursing: "Death to all Communist dogs...