Word: squalidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...jammed into its Tent City. "I only hope it doesn't sink," said one beleaguered State Department official in Washington. Camp authorities called for voluntary water rationing. The danger of disease was heightened by the condition of the toilets and the sewage systems, which ranged from adequate to squalid...
Accommodations at Tin City were adequate. But those at Asan were squalid and run-down-and in fact had been condemned a short time before the refugees arrived. At first, four people were forced to share a single blanket on a cold stone floor; few, if any, were issued mattresses or pillows. The grass outside was littered with filth, and water dripped through many of the hallway ceilings. Toilet facilities were primitive and overcrowded...
...their lovers, their jewels, their geese, their clerkships, their sense of proportion--and Holmes is the rare mind who can find his way about. No wonder our author feels out of place in Vienna and slowly molds it back into the London of the canon. He homes in on squalid quarters and warehouses by the river and at last even transforms Freud's apartment at Bergasse 19 from a sedate and bookish settlement into the familiar malodorous and cluttered Holmes thinktank...
September 1974 was a month that very few could enjoy. It was squalid--full of craziness without class. As worthless a month, in fact, as any in recent memory. The evidence...
...along comes Steve Krantz, producer of Fritz and likewise of this sequel - as squalid and witless an assembly of animation as could be imagined. By comparison, the Bakshi version looks like Fantasia. To escape the shrill accusations of his wife, Fritz drifts off into cannabis reveries where his libido can run unchecked and where his paranoia eventually assumes control. He idles back to the high-stepping 1930s, then works his way up to the present and a visit with a Bowery bum, whom he accidentally immolates. In the film's most elaborate episode, he eases himself off into...