Word: squalidity
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...declined. But as Stanford notes, there are plenty of disgruntled former Rainbow staff members around who "hate Jesse and want to destroy him" so much they didn't need cash as an incentive to spill what they knew. It was Jackson, in his arrogance, who provided them with the squalid tale that may bring him down. To appropriate one of Jackson's slogans, his time has gone...
What is innovative about McDonagh's play is the psychological intensity of his characters and their complex relationship to their squalid surroundings. And fortunately for the Sugan Theater's production, Engels clearly understands the significance of these two aspects. The interactions of Mag and Maureen are given vital importance. The mother and daughter face off like two ferrets in a small cage; behind their petty tauntings and quick-paced reportage of insults, one can see how intent each woman is on destroying the other. Susan Zeeman Roger's set-dirty and sparsely furnished, with a rain machine adding a backdrop...
...over-eager twits, but we can't forgive it. Why is she always younger than us--either the nave first-year or girl back home? We, the wise and cynical ones, know it can't last, but we wish it were a vast right-wing conspiracy instead of a squalid weakness of the flesh...
...districts are quarantining anyone manifesting the flu symptoms, diarrhea and vomiting that mark the onset of the disease, and have banned the communal cleansing ritual at the end of funerals. It's heartbreaking work for the medical personnel because the disease can't be treated, only contained. And the squalid refugee camps of northern Uganda - established to house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately contained, health officials are concerned that...
...still and golden. The summer trees are fat with their foliage. On Fourth of July weekend, I am rereading David Reynolds' splendid book "Walt Whitman's America" (1995). It gives me, among other things, a sense of reassuring continuity. We need the past - good, bad, mythic, squalid - as a counterweight. It is sometimes hilarious to see what a mess - embroiled, quotidian, contemporary - the American past actually...