Word: squalidly
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...camp is squalid-its only purity the snow, its only building a brothel. The beau is not squalid, but his three brothers are, and they clearly expect to share communal marital privileges. When the terrified bride decamps on her wedding night and rejoins the gold-guarding trio, the serious shooting begins. The good-guy bad-guy struggle is dramatically tangled and intensified by the fact that Scott and Starr have intended all along to either sweet-talk or pistol-silence McCrea out of the gold...
...Taste of Honey is pressed from the bitterly squalid urban honeycombs of the English poor. Not a drop of meaning has been spilled in transferring the play by Britain's angry young woman, Shelagh Delaney, from stage to screen...
Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' so-soporific play becomes a fast, smart, squalid movie melodrama that offers its customers three of the year's top film performances, by Paul Newman, Geraldine Page and Ed Begley...
Skyscrapers in the Sun. He presides over one of the hottest (average temperature: 90°) lands on earth, a steaming, lush thicket the size of New Mexico. Although much of Ivory Coast (pop. 3,500,000) consists of juju and squalid villages, it is moving ahead at a breathtaking pace. Its harbor at Abidjan, the capital, handles the world's third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices...
Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' so-soporific play becomes a fast, smart, squalid movie melodrama that offers its customers three of the year's top film performances, by Paul Newman, Geraldine Page and Ed Begley...