Word: rottenness
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...loss to Latin America. You say I have a vested interest? You're damn right I do." Says a Bush aide: "Fact is, we need the support of Democrats like Bennett, which makes sugar the lowest of low priorities." An honest explanation. And a rotten...
...back to Damn Yankees, which only tried to be entertaining and fun. When you look at all those people in shots like these, you think: "Is it really necessary to be critical? Why not just enjoy it?" And then comes the inevitable guilt feelings. I've felt rotten about some things I've written--not because they were wrong or even unjust, but because I've enjoyed writing them...
...this year there have been more than 100. Federal, state and local officials are supposed to regulate traffic through the waterways. But in the wake of severe budget cuts and a shortage of inspectors, the industry has been largely allowed to police itself. It has been doing a rotten...
...positive side, Branagh's stress on ensemble acting makes an interesting case for the play as a portrait of a whole society gone rotten rather than as a personal tragedy. His own portrayal of Edgar, the fugitive son of a mistrustful lord, comes as close as an actor can to making sense of the play's parallel set of antic mad scenes and willful disguises...
Obviously, the meanings of art are not confined to masterpieces. A piece of kitsch can tell us as much about its time as a Mondrian, which does not mean that it ceases to be kitsch. Mediocre or rotten art carries all sorts of social data -- messages that may have been overt or subliminal, but in either case work their way out (with a final tweak from their interpreters) over the years...