Word: squalorous
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...Amid the squalor, Abu Nabil's family, including four of his children and four grandchildren, live comfortably in an airy two-story concrete house. Nabil receives $650 a month from the U.N. and an additional $500 from a son in Saudi Arabia, enough money to leave the camp. The Rizqs remain, however, hoping to remind the world that the Palestinian problem still exists. Abu Nabil says firmly, "Even if you are doing well yourself, the occupation is a terrible thing...
Despite the obscure locations, the Rear Window is well worth checking out. For one night, leave your Videosmith card at home, leave the squalor of your own room. Escape from the wretched Golden-Glo bogus butter and crowds of large cinemas, and the safe, seen-them-all-before programming of most repertory moviehouses is just a T ride away. It's not really so far from your front door to the Rear Window...
...booming colonies, especially in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. Bailyn identifies the hardships of living in the great metropolis of London as an important motivation for emigration, terming the city with typical flair, "a tumultuous human agglomeration abounding in contrasts between wealth and poverty, elegance and brutality, beauty and squalor...
...abandoned and unwed mother of a half-black infant and who lives in a housing project not far from Roger's home. Although he does not want to claim responsibility for this distant and disgraced relative, the professor is attracted by her provocative vulgarity and the squalor of her circumstances...
Muffled lives explode in such understatements. Jhabvala adopts the identities of characters from an alien culture without romanticizing or condescending. Her spare prose leaves little room for metaphor; her India emerges out of small specifics, accretions that summon up heat, hope, squalor and a vast expanse of sky. These stories do not demystify India; they pay the place tributes of empathy and grace...