Word: rot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still-prevalent attitude where movies were regarded as commercial property, not art worth preserving. When William S. Hart didn't sell any more popcorn, Hollywood didn't care much about preserving his films. A no-longer-commercial commercial film fell subject to varying fates: films were allowed to rot in forgotten Hollywood vaults; original producers sold their distribution rights to smaller distributors; copyrights elapsed and films were turned over to family heirs; others were chopped to ribbons, sections used in the making of other films; legal problems of ownership and distribution rights mounted until films became hopelessly inaccessible (Hughes...
...graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet Nam and captures the grime of the war. "You're always soaked, always miserable," he writes, describing the infantryman's lot, plodding through mud and swamps. "Your boots stink and your socks rot-and your feet rot if you aren't careful." Which goes to prove that there's more to say about one rotten sock in Viet Nam than a whole discotheque full of electric dresses...
...drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have been caught, rice molders unharvested. In Soc Trang, the cost of food has risen 30%; in Vinh Long, the price of rice has soared tenfold...
What is happening is a dream of sorts, a very important, very fierce and tender, dream. Let the others hop back door, blue San Francisco Bay freight trains. For Dylan, "The Knigdoms of experience in the precious winds they rot." The winds push him underground into dreams "no words but these to tell what's true"--into artistic anarchy where can make new sounds, new words, new effects out of old materials...
Speed kills. It really does. Amphetamine, methedrine, etc. can, and will, rot your teeth, freeze your mind and kill your body. The life expectancy of the average speed freak, from the first shot to the morgue, is less than five years. What a drag...