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...essence is its relationship to society at large. What do ironworkers think about? How does their community work? Whenever Cherry fears his subjects are getting too much like automatons with accents he reverts to a "fun" incident--the workers playing a joke on an apprentice named Peter the Putrid Punk, or collecting on a girder to watch the hookers go by on Sixth Avenue. But the games are usually just buddies horsing around--not iron-workers--and they seem artificially imposed, stuck in to jazz up the plodding descriptions of the work...
...leeward side of the island, but on the river side, the winds off the water would clear the stink out of our nostrils. In the spring, we'd pray that the ice would break up so we wouldn't have to run those ten-mile races through the putrid...
...Sara points down ten stone steps to the "dungeon of Alcatraz." That was where the prison authorities would try to break a man, she explains, "when he was still able to say, 'I am me.' His hands were manacled to the walls, there was a lot of putrid water on the floor and lots of rats." The tour includes thumbnail sketches of such famed alumni as Al Capone ("He had syphilis and eventually died of it") and Robert Stroud, the so-called Birdman of Alcatraz ("The movie was a bunch of hooey -Stroud was a nasty person...
...Communists, and the tide of refugees is still rising in the Mekong Delta provinces in the south. Since the North Vietnamese offensive began in late March, an estimated 1,500,000 civilians have been driven and burned from their homes and condemned to live in camps or in the putrid shantytowns that surround every city in South Viet...
Muskie took some time to unravel Fuller's visionary verse. But last week he replied in the Times with 44 lines of his own bad poetry. After reeling off a few contemporary images-"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"-he got to Fuller's Maine point...