Squalid and overcrowded living conditions.
Squatters occupy this squalid real estate.
Today, the auditoriums are littered with rubble; cold air comes in through rocket holes; and once-bold Soviet murals of men and women, Afghans and Russians, are hidden in the squalid darkness near cartoon images depicting a Taliban fighter instructing children to become suicide bombers.
The Taiwanese media had always portrayed the People's Republic of China as a squalid backwater, but in televised images of Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing the city looked clean and prosperous.
Then Guston erupted in the late 60's with a psychic geyser of squalid, seething, lumpish, nightmare cartoon images: hooded Klansmen painting pictures or riding around in jalopies, smoking stogies; disembodied one-eyed, stubbled lima-bean heads; mangy, goggle-eyed dogs licking trash; hairy spider legs wearing thick shoes, brandishing garbage can lids like shields.
One of the more lasting images from Trump's squalid appearance on Tuesday was that of his chief of staff, John Kelly, who stood listening to him with a hangdog look of shame.
Another juror, Joseph Carroll, 46, said he might need to seek counseling after hearing all the evidence and seeing disturbing images of aborted fetuses and of the squalid conditions and grisly items in Dr. Gosnell's clinic, including jars of fetuses' feet, discovered by law enforcement officers during a drug raid in 2010.
I never forgot the image of him when I left his squalid flat – slightly drunk at 11 in the morning, laughing at nothing and no one, deeply nostalgic and horribly and irrevocably maimed by the things war does inside your head.
Gatsby yearned to make these squalid realities unreal, and so establish as an accepted fact the image he had created of himself.
