Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Lindsey by now headed, began working. When the strikers cited 200 building-code violations in one block, the city authorities did nothing, so the strikers got the state to bring the landlord to heel. To get more trash collections, the strikers trucked garbage downtown and left it to rot in the sun. Says Lindsey: "People were taking things into their own hands, and that generated a lot of excitement...
...more is expected of the former. Any liberalism that pits itself against the fear implicit in cruelty's vices has a task set out for itself. Is its power awesome enough to rid us of those vices? Hardly. Yet Shklar insists that it may help keep us from the rot in ourselves that leads us to follow fearful political solutions...
...anyone ever actually believed that this novel was realistic, then life in the Argentine capital must once have been unimaginably weird. True, the trappings of proletarian fiction are all roughly in place-lowlife taverns, brothels and urban rot: "The setting sun lit up the most revolting inner recesses of the sloping street." But the anti-hero who stumbles through this landscape is a perversely comic invention. Remo Erdosain collects bills for a sugar company and engages in petty embezzlement. He also writhes in noisy anguish at a world that can ignore his true genius. "Didn't they call...
Some day, although it is not likely, I may fathom the reason for Bombeck's popularity. I find her provincial and inane. I am amazed women's brains do not rot during the time they are listening to her. Alexandra Mayerle Minneapolis...
...vivid details, then going for broke. He was a prodigious sufferer. He managed to embrace all the guilt there was to religion, all the shame there was in sex. He dressed in his own kind of sackcloth-sneakers, work pants, sweat-stained shirt. He allowed his teeth to rot. When anger and frustration built up in him, he would smash his fist into the nearest wall or bloodily shatter the glass he was holding. "Nearly all the time," he wrote after one bender, "I am incompetent for work, or for thinking of work, or of anything except crawling around...