Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being called "Twenty Pounds Too Much." This shows an enormously fat, repulsive woman in a luxurious boudoir being massaged by a main. The second, "Twenty Pounds Too Little," pictures a woman, who, from lack of food, has become almost a skeleton, lying on a bare mattress in an underground squalid room, while sitting about her are her husband and little son. On a table by the bed are two empty food bowls...
...theme that saves Butterfidd 8 from being a squalid tale is the healthy, unfulfilled companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John...
...every village compound, among the squalid mud huts, savage priests shouted the liturgy in the obscure language of Geez, slew sheep and cattle for a sacrifice and the warriors drank the hot blood. The old men shouted tall tales of past Ethiopian glories. The chiefs put on their lion-mane collars. The warriors took up their fighting arms, their wives, their pots and the village set out for the capital of the superior chief, leaving behind only the old, infirm and infantile...
Serious-minded Vasya (David Morris) and easygoing Abram (Eric Dressier) inhabit a squalid, one-room municipal apartment borrowed from an uproarious poet who has gone to the farms to develop his muscles. Each unknown to the other, they marry-or "register"-on the same day, return with their wives. The congestion is further complicated by the return of the poet with huge biceps. He, however, heroically surrenders his hovel, expecting it to become a "collective Soviet paradise...
...Peter in college, where he was studying for the priesthood. A big. middle-aged Irish woman, proud, foolish, intense, domineering, Mrs. Fury had known poverty all her life, hut had never lost her spirit, controlled her magnificent temper, or grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in turn by him. Strict and unforgiving, she had closed the door on her son Desmond when he took a lovely but mysterious...