Word: slimed
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...Ironically, even when these pieces are at their most incisive-even when the slime and ooze of nature is at its most revolting and the destructive constructions of technology are at their most apocalyptic-they are consistently aestheticized to fit within the framework of landscape art, in unconscious deference to the traditional aesthetics of the Asher Durands and Thomas Coles of America's past...
With high art butting up against crass industry, and the sublime meeting the slime, Cannes is catnip for a connoisseur of bad taste like trash auteur John Waters, who showed his fizzy anarchistic jape Cecil B. Demented out of competition. "When I hear people say they hate the festival," he told TIME's Jeffrey Ressner, "I wonder why they bother to stay in show business." Cecil B. was typical of the American films premiering at Cannes this year. Ribald or sedate, they were all off-Hollywood. The Coen brothers offered a surprisingly genial odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with...
...hearsay, self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this one, typical in every way but its brevity: "What remained was epilogue and epitaph, chords like wind of death-song, of threnody." Uh, yeah...
Once the investigation begins to focus on Citizen Clinton with no executive privilege, it's sure to deliver a fresh batch of slime. Clinton, the party's most popular and powerful figure in recent memory, has already become an international laughingstock for his sexual and moral misdeeds - and that embarassment may soon worsen...
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