Constable's painting, "one of his most monumental works" according to the art historians Tammis Groft and Mary Mackay, depicts the early 19th-century Hadleigh Castle as a decaying, man-made structure, succumbing to the elemental power of nature.
"And in this maelstrom of decay ordinary men were battered and mashed.
The economy fluctuates, neighborhoods blossom or decay, but men never cease to disappoint.
The reconsideration of Valley architecture -- with a suggested lunch at Hamburger Hamlet on Van Nuys Boulevard, the Sardi's of the adult film world -- is part of a wider reappraisal of recent landmarks, a movement perhaps most vividly symbolized by the transformation of Miami's Art Deco South Beach district from evocatively decaying no man's land to fashion victim.
The struggle is presented in a series of experiences that start with the poet himself, move out into the ugly and yet, he finds, thrilling urban environment of contemporary Paris, and gradually uncover the black depths of deformation and decay within the men and women who inhabit this modern landscape of masses and markets.
The poem elegiacally describes the depopulation caused by emigration suffered by the village of Auburn, and it condemns the atmosphere that has replaced the pastoral good health of the past: the village has become a place "where wealth accumulates, and men decay".
Urban Decay estimates that men will represent 10%, or $1.5 million, of this year's total sales.
As wealth accumulates, men decay, and sooner or later an aristocracy that once might have aspired to an ideal of wisdom and virtue goes rancid in the sun, becomes an oligarchy distinguished by a character that Aristotle likened to that of "the prosperous fool" -- its members so besotted by their faith in money that "they therefore imagine there is nothing that it cannot buy".
Overall, our findings suggest that women from the Linzhou study population experience more coronal and root decay compared to men, and women are more likely to have retained residual dental roots and more teeth decayed or filled.
How much being pregnant contributes to cavities could be tested, says Larsen, by comparing the incidence of tooth decay in women and men in modern populations before and after boosts in fertility.
