Word: squalor
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...make highly visible improvement. The problems are so enormous they cannot be eliminated in the short term, but almost any tangible effort will help. Most of the country's black citizens are without electricity or running water at home. Eight million live not in houses but in the squalor of squatter shacks. About 18 million black families earn less than $220 a month. Half the black population is illiterate and half its work force has no job. Development experts say the national economy must grow at 3.5% a year to make even a dent in joblessness; the growth rate this...
...Squalor in Chicago
...BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE: This week production begins on the movie version of Carolyn Chute's novel about incest and squalor in trailer-park Maine. It stars avatar-of-hip Kelly Lynch...
...cleanliness of Harvard Square is not a brand-new issue. Harvard Corporation member Henry Rosovsky wrote of the "ever-changing urban squalor of Harvard Square" in his book The University: An Owner's Manual. At the time, some city leaders were upset at what they took as a disparaging remark. Now, however, they apparently agree
...homosexuality, Carver far surpasses the cinematic performance of the role that won William Hurt a 1985 Oscar. In the less rewarding part of a revolutionary cell mate, Anthony Crivello acts with bluff intensity and sings with beauty and power. The men's cramped quarters and surrounding tiers of cagelike squalor become a park, a movie palace, a Russian alley, even a vast, symbolic spiderweb through inspired film projections by set designer Jerome Sirlin, making a dazzling Broadway debut after a career in the avant- garde and in opera...