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...year-old woman died of natural causes but in agony nonetheless. She had suffered from arthritis, osteoporosis and malnutrition; her teeth were rotten; and an improperly set broken leg had led to a huge bone abscess. The infant, probably a girl, was malnourished too. Her last weeks had been marked by spinal meningitis and a brain inflammation. The man had been sedentary and overweight; his death at around 50 was sudden, perhaps from a heart attack...
...Kennedy recalls. "I said, 'The HIV is a worm, and the apple is your body. The worm gets into your body, eats a little and then goes to sleep. Then it wakes up again and starts eating some more and some more and some more, until the apple becomes rotten. And that is what is happening...
...conceptual intent is reinforced, for example, at the conclusion of the play, when the "statue of recondiliation," traditionally a statue of a beautiful woman, appears as a grotesque caricature of a pregnant woman. Also, the translation's inclusions of such modern-day refrences as Hamlet's "something's rotten in the state of Athens?" heightens the sense that the production features a significant internal critique...
...want to commend Bryan Garsten's persistence in bringing to light in his article "Surveys: A Dying Breed?" the fact that there is definitely something rotten in the People's Republic of Cambridge...
...current rent control system is rotten to the core. Cambridge faces a terrible shortage of living space, and landlords have to incentive to improve their property. Furthermore, there is no motivation for owners to rent to lower-income tenants; they get the same rent from anyone so they might as well rent to the first person who comes along...