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Word: rottenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether you're any different. Brecht's script keeps up a steady fire of political comment, and his socialism slips in discreetly enough so that even American audiences in the '50s could stomach it. But it's Weill's brooding, often harsh music--so evocative of Weimar Germany's rotten core--that fixes The Threepenny Opera's world of human iniquity and mortality in the audience's mind. Maybe it's just a case of the fascination of the grotesque: the songs aren't beautiful, but you don't forget them...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Nothing should prevent a group that can produce brilliant music like this from making it. If anything does stop Blondie, it will be rotten lyrics. "Just Go Away" sets some great music to the following words...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: New Wave's Old Wrinkle | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...politicians in this state are nothing short of rotten...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Ruse of the Right | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...bicycles. There were angry words. Then John's father, Lawrence Westberg, went marching over to the home of the boys' father, William Scherrer. Westberg claims he simply shouted, "Goddamn it, Bill, start controlling your kids." Scherrer, on the other hand, swears that Westberg called him a "rotten, f- sonofabitch!" Scherrer called the police, who arrested Westberg. The charge: violating the township's ordinance on disorderly persons, which prohibits, among other things, "indecent, insulting or immoral language in the presence of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Foul Call | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...Maine town of Dover-Foxcroft (pop. 4,000), Charles MacArthur was standing beside the canal lock that feeds water from the Piscataquis River into the hydroelectric plant of Brown's Mill. He heard a strangely squishy, popping sound. "It was sort of like a baseball bat hitting a rotten stump," he recalls. The bulkhead below the 600-kw generator bulged from hydrostatic pressure and quietly let go. MacArthur (who owns the mill) turned, horrified, to see 100 tons of concrete, studded with steel reinforcing rods, tossed lightly into the springtime air as thousands of gallons of water poured back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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