Word: stench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rowdy laughs. However they may strike us 44 years after the play was written, Amanda and Elyot were meant to be romantic names. The one song in the play, Some Day I'll Find You, is as seductive as a dizzying perfume. This production exudes merely a sorry stench. ·T.E.K...
...brought out the impossibility of life without reason. The most piercing and disturbing part of the MFA's exhibition is the room devoted to the Desastres. Built on Goya's own experience during the six-year war between Spain and Napoleon's France, the Desastres show the carnage, the stench--the actuality of war. Goya shows no heroes and no villains. No supernatural forces are at work here--the agony and suffering are inflicted by people onto other people, and no one is spared...
Officials moved quickly to burn or bury masses of bloated, mud-caked bodies, but the stench of death was everywhere. A broiling sun soon beat down on the havoc. Stranded children suffered from exposure and sunstroke. One family was rescued after spending four days holding on to high-tension wires just a few feet above the flood waters. At least a dozen people were treated for spider or snake bites after tarantulas and fer-de-lances fled their hiding places in flooded banana groves. An estimated 100,000 people have been left homeless by the hurricane...
Fathy, the son of an Alexandria landowner, first became interested in these clients in 1926 when his job with a government agency took him near a family property where peasants lived in stench, filth and misery. "Because the place was owned by my father, I suddenly felt terribly responsible for it all," he says. "I decided I must do something." Using the architectural training he received at Cairo's Higher School of Engineering, he decided to design decent dwelling for peasants, using locally available bricks made of mud and straw...
...Loman family who is deceived by this shabby little dog-eared pack of dreams that Willy has been hauling about--and least of all, Willy. And therein lies the bitter legacy of human grandeur--that unlike the less fortunate primates, we get to chronicle our own spreading stench of death...