Word: filth
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...ignorance of some people is ofttimes appalling; do not South Africa's Prime Minister Verwoerd and the mass of cretins cavorting behind him, in the slime and filth that is his belief, even suspect what is to be the certain fate of their children? Bloodshed and tyranny lead to but more bloodshed and tyranny...
...Evergood recorded as The Pink Dismissal Slip Evergood himself was a part of the famed "219 Strike," in which 219 artists staged an ill-fated demonstration against being swept from the rolls of the WPA. He was clubed into sensibility, spent the night in a cell ankle-deep in filth. On canvas, Evergood's figures were apt to be as chunky as himself, his colors applied in solid intricately designed blocks. But the mood could be as soft as a glow. In Portrait of my Mother, he painted a woman who, doggedly masking her pain, calmly awaits certain death...
...later. Though the prices of such early paintings can now go up into the thousands, Mrs. Gunn had no interest in making a profit. She kept no record of her acquisitions, but instantly consigned them to the barn, where they were soon covered with filth-splattered, torn and fouled by bats and birds. What, then...
Enemy Scavengers. Currently, Lacson rails against "the abuses, excesses, rascality, rapacity and filth of the Garcia administration." Lacson describes politics as "a way to see the world through a garbage can," and he has made enemies among those who scavenge there. Driving home one night, Lacson was nearly killed by a burst of carbine fire. He has twice disarmed gunmen who attacked him and is fatalistically prepared to end either as President of the Philippines or victim of an assassin. "My father was murdered," says Lacson, "and my grandfather was killed by slipping on a cake of soap...
...Andersonville Trial (by Saul Levitt) took place before a U.S. military court in August 1865. The defendant, Henry Wirz (Herbert Berghof), had been superintendent of the notorious Andersonville, Ga. prison, where some 40,000 Union soldiers lived in unutterable filth and want, and where 14,000 of them died...