Word: squalidity
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...British ships that ferried white convicts to colonize Australia in January 1788. The Europeans ignored the yells, and the Aborigines have suffered from negligence ever since. Now comprising only 1% of Australia's population of 16 million, the Aborigines have become a forgotten and impoverished minority, relegated to the squalid fringes of rural towns and shabby city suburbs of a continent that once was theirs alone. "We are a captive people," says Paul Coe, an Aboriginal leader. "We are a managed people...
...Brits are going to catch with that one is a few harmless former spies eking out their pensions with ripping yarns about the bad old days in MI5. No, what they need over there is an Unofficial Secrets Act -- something that will stop the English underclass from converting squalid youthful memories into rude, shrewd, occasionally lewd movies of the kind that have lately been jostling away at one another -- and at our innocent colonial funny bones. As a group they form a kind of Disasterpiece Theater, more blithely brutal than typically British, and likely to prove ruinous to the national...
...squalid as the garages may be, the truly dispiriting news is that things could be worse. As Lawyer Lee puts it, "It is deplorable that you should have to live without basic human services. But it's a helluva lot better than being on the street...
Overall, Irangate disappoints, despite production costs of at least $40 million. No matter how big the budget, a B-grade actor is still just that. Let's hope this squalid drama closes soon...
...name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud. And squalid Nancy was plenty eager to share his psychopathy. Before long he was killing her loudly with his song: she died, apparently with his clumsy connivance, in 1978. He followed her a few months later...