Word: filth
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...firm deadlines for air quality to be improved to specific minimum standards. In Los Angeles' case, mass transit would presumably help by enticing commuters out of their cars. But the Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known as the Los Angeles air basin, hoped to find another alternative. It turned to the Rand Corp. for an analysis of the problem. Lo and behold, the respected think tank recently produced what seemed at first glance to be model advice...
...matter. The deadliest, most brilliant satire still works by desecration and flourishes in filth. Someone eventually rears up to illuminate the dark underside, reminding us, like Swift, that sham, corruption and violence lurk beneath the surface of our beliefs and institutions and, of course, that Caelia shits. For America in the late fifties and very early sixties there was Lenny Bruce...
...Rivera laid the blame for Willowbrook directly on the administration of Governor Nelson Rockefeller in his commentary filled with fury and even tears: "This is what it looked like. This is what it sounded like. But how can I tell you about the way it smelled? It smelled of filth, it smelled of disease, and it smelled of death...
...Houses appear more frequently, dark-brown tenement houses with broken fences and rusted rainspouts. Shortly the inflexible lines of the Prudential Center appear, and the train glides into Boston's Back Bay. On the left is a series of gutted apartments, their red bricks turned black with age and filth. On the right renovated townhouses line well-swept streets. Mass Pike runs parallel to the train tracks on the left...
...points an accusing finger at Stalin's accomplices who still hold office in the Soviet Union: "What a path to ruin lies ahead if we cannot cleanse ourselves of this filth festering in our body...