Word: grime
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...South African-run luxury hotel. In 2004, when I was last in Tanzania, the Commission’s smudgy grey facade—unclean after a three-decades-long unkempt existence—was apparently deemed to be an unbecoming look given what the agency nominally was.The grime accentuated the building’s weirdly Gotham feel—it is divided into two five-story wings which fan from a taller, and, might I add, completely useless center. Nowadays, everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue...
...lock and load. Jessi grabbed the slide on the side of her M-16, tugged it back and tried to chamber a round. It jammed. She had cleaned it every day, but the grit had swirled in through the truck's windows all day and clogged it again with grime. She snatched at it, trying to eject the jammed cartridge...
...Craig Jones has justfinished dumping 400 trash cans' worth of garbage into the Cincinnati Textile Building's basement compactor. The weighty refuse he carries each night hardly fazes Jones after five years on the job, but the grime he has to scrub off dirty wastebaskets still gets to him a little. "Wiping spit is a tough thing to get used to," he says. Jones, 27, earns $6.50 an hour without benefits, vacation time or sick days. His employer, Professional Maintenance, a cleaning contractor, usually schedules him for just four hours a night, five nights a week, so Jones' biweekly...
...third album, “First Impressions of Earth,” places the band in the midst of a cold New York winter. Conjuring up the claustrophobia and bleakness of Manhattan is a new direction for a band whose earlier videos and songs celebrated the grime and buzz of the city’s nightlife. In “Heart in a Cage,” leather-jacketed singer Julian Casablancas rolls on the gritty surface of the city streets while anonymous figures and rushing legs swirl past him. Face rubbing against asphalt, teeth clenched, he mumbles...
...scared of foreign music. Grime, reggaetón, Houston rap… they all make me uncomfortable, mainly because I can’t understand what they’re saying, and because it usually sounds like a twisted version of music I know. So news of the new grime compilation “Run The Road, Vol. 2” had me warily approaching it from a distance. But in this case, it didn’t take long for me to warm up to the music. Despite the low-to-the-ground implications of the genre?...