Word: rot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shattered fragments of Jiveass' philosophy finally come together when he regains consciousness after a fist fight having to do with the question of his only friend's alleged homosexuality. Jiveass sees homosexuality as a destructive form of weakness designed to rot a man's identity out from under him-just as he see his own relations with white women as a way of prostituting himself and submitting to the white world, rather than attacking it and identifying himself as one with his blackness...
...many abandoned dwellings there are in the U.S., since the paradoxical problem has been only recently recognized and little studied. The phenomenon is most prominent in the aging industrial cities of the East and Midwest. By the best estimates available, 130,000 apartments and houses have been left to rot in New York City during the past four years-enough to house the population of El Paso. There are 950 vacant buildings in Chicago, 20,000 abandoned buildings in Philadelphia, 5,000 in Baltimore, at least 1,500 in Detroit, and around 1,000 in Boston and Washington. The trend...
...album was released about four months ago; we got it green and appetizing, it ripened quickly into prime yellow and as it moved through time, acquired the characteristic rich brown brocade textures of old age. But collected experiences usually start to smell of rot in due time. Except that it doesn't seem to be happening at all with Let it Bleed does it? The experience of playing it on the trusty Gramophone is still amazingly (by turns) uplifting and sobering and (always) worthwhile. Fruitful, one might even...