Word: decayed
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...Uribe administration is already showing troubling signs of decay - and paranoia. His intelligence agency stands accused of spying on political opponents. Dozens of pro-Uribe lawmakers have been jailed for collaborating with right-wing death squads. As a result, nearly one-third of the senators voting in favor of the referendum on Tuesday were unelected alternates standing in for their disgraced colleagues...
Kurt Weston's dark and depressing images - many of which are stylized self-portraits - are also a star of the show. A former fashion photographer in Chicago, Weston lost his vision due to AIDS in 1996, and focuses his lens, and sometimes simply his scanner, on images of decay and disability. "I not only want to look at these things, photograph these things, but put an exclamation point on them," he explains. "I'm saying, 'You need to look at this disabled body, this aging body. And maybe you need to reconsider your ideas about what is normal or abnormal...
...describe the complications and stresses inherent in being a kingpin in the Baltimore drug trade? If you have no idea what the crap I’m talking about, The Wire, aka the sweetest show ever, is about crime and policing in the age of post-industrial urban decay, and the characters traditionally say “all in the game” to describe the triumphs, defeats and harsh realities of operating in the criminal underworld. Sort of like “that’s life” or “shit happens, bra?...
...ideas, he allowed over two decades to elapse before deeming it fit to premiere in 1874. The HRO’s performance of the classic was one of their most profound and polished in recent memory. The violins forcefully sustained the opening line, topping the coherent string section. The decay and buildup to the recapitulation of the main theme was smooth and dramatic, finishing with overwhelming power.Yannatos controlled the second movement’s thick orchestration delicately, using it to always support a clear, prominent melodic line. Julia L. Glenn ’11 finished the movement with a soaring...
...many, the ANC's new leader, Jacob Zuma, embodies the party's decay. He won the leadership in late 2007 after a vicious fight with predecessor Thabo Mbeki that split the party - and led to COPE's formation. In 2005 his business adviser, Shabir Shaik, was sentenced to 15 years for soliciting bribes for him, and for years Zuma has faced a related prosecution for corruption, racketeering, fraud, money-laundering and tax evasion. Last month, Shaik secured an early release because of hypertension. On April 6, after three years of trying to bring Zuma to court, the National Prosecuting Authority...