Word: squalors
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...made: by bartering and bribery. These are the folks to whom you entrust the anointing of the famous: slimes. But slimes with style - for the watchworks of malevolence have their own precision, their own seductive movement. "Sweet Smell" is as much in love as in judgment of the moral squalor it depicts; it whispers invective in Sidney's ear as it pours poison in yours...
...brown paper and stuck to untreated concrete pillars with gaffer tape. Using public money and private contributions from sponsors like Pioneer and Bloomberg, Bourriaud and Sans recreated the atmosphere of a seedy Berlin squat in the heart of Paris' opulent 16th arrondissement. But what does all this nouveau squalor have to do with contemporary art? The curators don't explain. Nor do they say why they didn't simply move into one of the many dilapidated industrial sites around Paris. Presumably, their intended audience prefers chic imitation to the real thing...
Lusztig spent four years researching, shooting and editing Reconstruction. However, she already has a distinguished body of student work. Lusztig graduated with a joint concentration in East Asian Studies and Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard. Her thesis film, For Beijing with Love and Squalor, which she shot in China during her time as a student at the Beijing Film Academy, has been shown at several film festivals throughout the US, East Asia, and Europe. She also has made one short film, entitled Crema Roz. Her future plans include pursuing a Ph.D. in film in London and researching a film...
...cannot be denied that the problems which had their origin in the historic Anti-Semitism of Europe and the resulting Holocaust have been solved at the expense of the Palestinian population. The total number of refugees is in the many millions. The refugee camps are places of hopeless squalor where deep resentments fester among a doomed people with no future. They have been left there for the last 50 years to stew in their fury by governments local and far away, large and small, with little cynical regard for their lot. The massacres in the regfugee camps...
...This squalor was unlike the Hermit. Aside from the junked cars, he seemed to be an orderly man. If he was crazy - which I doubt - his insanity did not express itself in disorder but rather in the reverse, in a rigorous private tidiness of habit. He was not a man to allow something as intimate as his trash to be on view to passing strangers. What was the meaning of the mess in the drive...