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On the negative side, critics say it "rolls in sleaze and squalor like a mangy dog on steaming roadkill" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). On the positive side, Janet Maslin praises Clark for the way he manages to create "bad times with a wicked way of looking good" (the New York Times ). (This fan site is packed with video stills from the film; find out more about director Larry Clark at alt.culture.)
Flem rises from rural squalor, getting a job as a clerk at Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend, then taking over the store, then moving to the town of Jefferson.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. describes returning to Africa 25 years after his first visit: He is stunned by the squalor.
A NYT front-pager reviews the blooming of open "God talk" among presidential hopefuls, seeing in it an efficient way to flash distance from the squalor of the Clinton scandals.
An Indian doctor/author describes the impossibility of practicing medicine in India--too much squalor, too few supplies, and 25,000 cases of rabies a year.