Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resemble the plot of Flashdance, like most student employment it has its ups and downs. "It makes so much of a difference if there are friends who I can talk to on my break. Otherwise I stand there smoking my cigarette and feeling really sordid and squalid...
...people who live in the slum's 10,000 squalid shanties have not emerged entirely victorious. According to Viljoen, only 3,000 dwellings in Crossroads can be approved. Most of the squatters will still have to move, presumably to Khayelitsha, a new township eight miles away that many blacks reject as being too costly and too remote. Admitted Viljoen: "I can give no assurance that people will not be resettled under compulsion...
Their exodus begins on foot or by truck from primitive dwellings in the northwestern reaches of Ethiopia. In the past, those who managed to survive the arduous trek across the famine-ravaged land then had to endure, sometimes for years, squalid life in sprawling refugee camps on the Sudanese side of the border. They are called Falashas in Ethiopia, which in the Amharic language means "strangers" or "ones without a place." But they have always had a spiritual home: Israel. Although these Ethiopians are black, they are also Jews, and they long for the Promised Land. The Israeli government...
...message of depression: desperation--and perhaps hope somewhere surviving. When well done, it can be an enticing, thought-provoking evening of theatre, and this production largely succeeds. Director Kevin Jennings has taken advantage of the ample resources of the Loeb, assembled a strong cast and imaginatively recreated the squalid, decaying world of New Orleans' Old Quarter--at least through the first...
...Paul II had issued one of his strongest condemnations ever of organized crime. Visiting the southern Italian village of Paola, he called upon listeners to break "the tragic chain of vendettas" and abandon the Mafia's code of silence, "which binds so many people in a type of squalid complicity dictated by fear...