Word: squalore
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...your kicks on blood and gore. It may also indicate that there are some virtues in the straightforward approach of someone like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque," or worse, "Ken Russell." Anyway, the continual aestheticizing of squalor and of brutality, not to mention the poeticizing of prison homosexuality-a necessity perhaps for prisoners but not, surely, a joyous compensation for most of them-finally makes one very irritated indeed...
...greatest irritants to Philippine sensibilities involve the U.S. bases. Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay naval facility are bastions of affluence that contrast painfully with the poverty and squalor near by. Filipinos are critical of the PX mentality that prevails on these military reservations. At Clark an Olympic-size pool, 18-hole golf course, three movie theaters and 14 base exchange stores serve the 20,000 people who live there. Until U.S. and Philippine authorities cracked down this year, too much of the tax-free stereo equipment, perfume, potato chips and liquor sold at the exchange stores ended...
...this quality that gives Camus a solar power in times of cant and moral squalor. Unlike his fellow anti-colonialists, Camus was never willing to issue a license to kill. Of rebel atrocities he writes, "The truth, alas, is that part of French opinion vaguely holds that the Arabs have in a way earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved...
...family of six on a fishing junk with 150 other people. When the ships near the Thai coast, Thai naval patrols sometimes climb aboard and rob the refugees of their remaining money and belongings. At least 1,000 boat people from Viet Nam are currently living in abject squalor on a stretch of beach in Songkhla, near the Malaysian border. These refugees have thus far survived on the 25? a day each receives from the U.N. and on food donated by the Vietnamese wife of the Dutch ambassador in Bangkok...
...fourth son of an aristocratic Scots family. That part of the Hamilton story, briefly told, has suggested a certain domestic warmth surrounding the child, and even a hint of affluence. Flexner's research, he says, "turns the accepted story completely upside down. I found not affluence but relative squalor; not warmth but betrayal. Hamilton's home was a shambles." Being illegitimate, Alexander was officially designated an "obscene child." His mother Rachel was evidently something of a slut; before taking up with Hamilton's father, she served time in jail on St. Croix for committing adultery-"whoring with...