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...gray and damp, and a visit requires a victory of mind over weather. The great galleries and cathedrals are often hushed and wonderfully solitary, but walking between them can be discouraging on a drizzly afternoon. The secret, explains the experienced traveler, is to visit places that all but the rottenest weather cannot spoil...
...among them must betray his upper-classmates and violate the honor code in order to restore civility among the young gentlemen. So creaky is this convention that there is no attempt to make this story contemporary; it is set in 1964. Some novelties have been added: the rottenest hazers are a secret society leagued with the customarily bonkers commandant; their chief victim is the only black cadet in the corps. Otherwise it is business as usual. The Lords of Discipline is a stiff, improbable movie, full of characters everyone has seen marching in this parade before...
...looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody lie and say their dirt is not dirt or they lie to us about their dirt. I know these are the rottenest people on God's earth, and they know it too. But as long as they can get folks to say that shit is shinola they would rather deal in shit...
...passion, love, deceit, death and a kind of fermenting sexuality. But in The Damned he has outdone himself. The doomed figures of the title are the Von Essenbeck family, an informal assembly of back stabbers, thieves, perverts and murderers who can lay claim to being just about the rottenest clan since the Borgias...
...wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing off a tumbler full of booze. "They had the black flag out, but Agajanian talked them out of it." Said Eddie Sachs, who was driving in his seventh 500: "This is the rottenest victory I've ever seen. The Lotus-Fords were fantastic; they should have won easy." Sachs was still so mad next day that he picked a fight with Winner Jones and got black-flagged himself...