A gamy national hero, famous for being infamous, Freud wore his rakery, gambling, storied violence, and domestic squalor like something between medals and cap-and-bells.
When Lucian Freud died, in 2011, Peter Schjeldahl wrote that in Britain the painter had been "a gamy national hero, famous for being infamous, [who] wore his rakery, gambling, storied violence, and domestic squalor like something between medals and cap-and-bells".
Bilston, town of furnaces, flames and inhumane squalor, once looked like Mordor; now it's more like Hobbiton.
But it's more like international squalor.
Nate lives in post-college squalor: "his apartment was like an ungroomed human body…" It is from this home base that he moves through a host of women: from wholesome Kristen to false, beautiful Elisa to insecure Juliet, whom he got pregnant, to the intellectually satisfying journalist Hannah to the emotional, hysterical memoirist Greer.
In Philadelphia, Ehrenhalt rightly describes the vitality of Center City, but notes that just a few blocks away in neighborhoods like Kensington the squalor and violence are overwhelming.
The World Bank Group has invested more than $180 million in the project, insisting that the pipeline's profits could significantly improve the lives of Chad's residents, most now living in squalor, by paying for services like health care, education, paved roads, electricity and sewer systems.
If not quite Grey Gardens-like in terms of absolute squalor, the aesthetic I adopted was largely comprised of 'faded finery'.
These people have seen refugee camps before after the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when hundreds of thousands of Rwandans fled to Goma and they did not like what they saw: squalor, cholera, bloodshed.So they walked home, despite the risk.
Amid the benign post-hippy squalor, the narrator asks her sister, Bea, what she would like to be when she grows up.
I don't like it but I like living amongst all the squalor.
