Word: decrepit
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...father's chronic illness, his is the voice of experience. There is a sordidness and crudity in many of the renditions reminiscent often of Joel Grey in Cabaret. Furthermore, Masiell's carriage, and four husky, underdressed, female sidekicks make the whole performance seem almost to take place in a decrepit, dusky bar over bourbon. Like West Side Story, Not at the Palace acknowledges the world's callousness, and only then take an optimistic approach. Masiell embodies the 20th-century myth of the lonely, common man who in defiance of the world's many inequities, stubbornly perseveres...
...course of the decade, synthetic sex came a long way from the first models, the inflatables and the hand-windups, to the prototypes with thermostats and feedback. The originals of these copies are long dead, or else are now decrepit crones, but teflon, nylon, dralon, and Sexofix have withstood the wear of time...
...Harvard is ridiculous," although true, won't really tell you why the team wins or loses. I can spout some Truth after seeing one contest (the 6-5 overtime loss to RPI), but it's not fair to judge anyone on the basis of what he does in decrepit Troy, N.Y., where Zamboni-watching is more exciting than the nightlife...
Unfortunately, things did not turn out that way. Despite the $2 billion infusion, Conrail is now losing far more money than the six decrepit lines did collectively before the consolidation. After a 1977 loss of $367 million, Conrail is rumbling toward a deficit of more than $400 million this year, and the trend is definitely downgrade. So perilous is its financial position that the House at last week's end was driving toward following the Senate's example and passing an emergency bill that would give Conrail another $1.3 billion. Even so, the U.S. Railway Association, the agency...
...late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Borgia family brought the papacy to its nadir. After the death of the notorious Alexander VI in 1503, Cardinal Sforza succeeded in frustrating Borgia ambitions by having decrepit Cardinal Piccolomini elected Pius III. Rapacious Vatican bureaucrats, accustomed to plundering the apartments of every new Pope on the assumption that the Holy Father would need no further worldly goods, so stripped Pius' cell that he even had to buy back the bed in which he died of gout just 25 days later...