Word: squalidity
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...Branko Japundja, 50, a wounded Serb farmer who left the hospital where he was recuperating and walked all night to escort his family from their frontline village, descended on Banja Luka after days on the road with little more than the clothes they wore. Thousands now live in the squalid, muddy "collection centers" that ring the town...
Today's advocates of the chain gang offer a much more sanitized scenario for its institution. But even without the squalid conditions and whippings, the spectre of back-breaking labor mandated by the state remains. It is the promise of that very labor that people such as Edwards use to press the chain gang's case; the new workforce can be turned to improving roads, public lands and other state infrastructure...
...scene: a squalid apartment. The cast: a restless, repulsive twenty-something and his friend and lovers. The mood: boiling over with directionless anger and intellectual energy, yet surprisingly static. What is this? "Reality Bites"? "The Real World...
...unchanging set for Look Back in Anger is a bare and squalid apartment, and designer Zach Sung utilizes his space will. He manages to convey a sense of depressing poverty yet entertain the eye. Angry news headlines pasted over the bed (such as "Trust No One" and "Expect To Be Disappointed") and ashtrays full of cigarette butts make the place look lived-in, while a perfectly dreadful late "50s color scheme renders the ugly interpersonal relations in the play all the uglier. And little touches like vinyl-covered kitchen chairs and a screen behind which Jimmy can be seen playing...
...survived. The Cambridge Historical Commission succeeded in having the building placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. And restorations in 1976 and 1985, as well as the current construction project, have returned it to a less squalid state...