Word: squalidity
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...Crowther (and many others) urged me to see an "absolutely staggering" picture--a funfest of wild drinking, bad words, sexy scenes and naughty thoughts, with a few fat moral issues to cement them together in the plot. But this movie is not a celebration of barbarism, nor even a squalid stripping of souls on the "Marty" bandwagon. If you arrive drunk or depressed you may not enjoy yourself, because there are admittedly some pretty unpleasant scenes. Your date may not enjoy herself, because there's no heroine to identify with...
Pozzuoli, on the Bay of Naples, has been described in a travel book as "perhaps the most squalid city in Italy." The most squalid city in Italy has music in its streets, cluttered pink and white buildings, seagulls screaming overhead, a bright blue waterfront, a Roman amphitheater where Gennaro-patron saint of Naples-achieved his exaltation simply because a pride of lions refused to eat him. It now has a municipal slogan: "What a woman we have exported." Romilda's health was poor, and her breasts went dry. Little Sofia-the ph was inserted later because it seems more...
Surprisingly, the play-which contains some of the sleaziest writing done by Tennessee Williams since he became an important playwright-has emerged from its ordeal by camera, thanks principally to Writer-Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry}, as a fast, smart, squalid melodrama that offers its customers three of the year's top film performances...
...country that they had to shout down the actors were justified. The immorality of Synge's peasants (they admire a murderer and use words like "shift") was only the ostensible cause of the outrage; what fired the wrath of the groundlings was the fact that Synges' peasants are neither squalid nor maudlin, are not, in other words, the stock stage peasants. (Lorca is the only playwright besides Synge who can write peasant comedies without cliche and condescension.) It is a measure of that first audience's total sympathy with Synge's characters, that when the characters are shown...
Posted throughout Dunbar Vocational High School are cards bearing a Ben Franklin motto: "He that hath a trade hath an estate." The exhortation is hardly needed at the rambling tan brick school on Chicago's squalid South Side. To its 2,300 youngsters, 99% of them Negro, Dunbar is a life raft in a sea of poverty. It is perhaps the most effective vocational school...