Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...