Word: rubbishing
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...tons. Clouds of flies hovered everywhere; rats scurried from their rancid treasure. Plastic trash bags became toxic balloons, swollen tight by noxious fumes from the detritus inside. "Trash entrepreneurs," driving around in vans, carted bags away for 75 cents each. Along with their luggage, residents even began taking their rubbish with them as they left for vacations in the Poconos or for trips to relatives in nearby New Jersey, where garbage collection is still a regular event...
...graphic sophistication lay beneath the populist surface. Such is Rivera at his best, but even at his worst the man's kitsch and bad taste have an orotund wholeheartedness that seems endearing. His mock-surrealist landscapes of the 1940s, together with some of his more contrived social portraits, are rubbish, but they do not spoil the cumulative effect of the show...
Rambo's hypocrisy has brought Stallone his share of enemies. Hill Street Blues star Charles Haid, a Navy veteran during the Vietnam War, observed that: "The whole idea of someone like Stallone representing the Vietnam veteran is absolute rubbish." Denouncing Stallone's film as a cartoon, Haid fumed "I'd love to get Stallone in a public forum where he and I could face...
...most of his fingers and is half blind as a result of two letter bombs sent to him by unknown parties in 1961 and 1980. He boasted to Bunte of his war crimes, referring to the hundreds of thousands of Jews he sent to the gas chambers as "that rubbish." Brunner is still being sought by half a dozen countries and is under two death sentences in France. Syria has ignored requests to extradite him. Bunte quotes Brunner as saying he is willing to stand trial so that "Israel won't get me." But Brunner apparently would not be allowed...
...dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence of stench, but not without some dissension. Jasper, demanding cash that Alice does not have, lashes out: "While you play house and gardens, pouring money away on rubbish, the Cause has to suffer, do without...