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If you travel to Mogadishu, Mexico City or Mumbai, you find that dilapidated infrastructure and logistics continue to be a stumbling block to the delivery of medicine and healthcare in the rural areas.
It can be something small, like where a street lamp should go, or something medium like which library should have its hours extended or cut, or maybe something bigger, like whether a dilapidated waterfront should be turned into a highway or a greenway, or whether all the businesses in your town should be required to pay a living wage.
It was this guest house, it had kind of been dilapidated, not taken care of for a long time.
The school libraries in these schools are really so dilapidated, if they're there at all, that they haven't bored anyone.
From dank taverns to dilapidated apartments and claustrophobic police stations, the underbelly of 19th century Saint Petersburg is brought to life by Dostoyevsky’s searing prose.
So, the first position we took was, "Hey, we as architects had better not show up and do a pristine building that doesn't engender the same freedoms that this old dilapidated shed provided the company."
The thought alone that Mom would move her two daughters into this dilapidated and FILTHY home is absurd.
These face-painted freaks form a group who express their feelings anarchically, though non-violently, living on dilapidated streets abandoned by the "civilized world" voicing their concerns regarding nuclear disarmament.
Telling a stupidly incongruous tale of pubescent twin sisters who crawl from a firey car crash which kills their parents and then hit the road while happily shoplifting, making goo-goo eyes at some guy, and ending up on an Army post so dilapidated no Army would want it (yeah, right!).
The directing as well as the cinematography was done very well and the hotel backdrop really looked dilapidated and well done.
The Hoff excels here as Gary, a cynical and skeptical photographer who along with his repressed virginal writer girlfriend Leslie (attractive brunette Leslie Cummings) investigates a seedy dilapidated haunted hotel located on a remote island off the coast of Massachussetts.
They shack-up together underneath an old dilapidated building with nothing but each other's warmth and a small mattress to their possession.
This is just a real slapdash of a mess, and the dilapidated surroundings practically stink of manure and don't make this much easier.
It is post WWII, and they live with the husband's teenage sister (Hongmei Zhang) in a dilapidated home with not much money (the man had been wealthy when they married).
Pretty much, the plot involves a kid who experienced a Carrie-like shower humiliation in high school and returns to the dilapidated building to seek out revenge on a group of former-bullies who all show up to reminisce.
Prison tells the story of an old, dilapidated prison being reopened to save on budgetary concerns.
Their existence in a dilapidated mansion, (which they had not left for more than fifteen years) is both a comedy and a tragedy.
Ann Sheridan buys a dilapidated house believing that "George Washington Slept Here" in this 1942 film also starring Jack Benny, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn and Hattie McDaniel.
By what seems like pure luck the bumbling brothers inherit a dilapidated mansion at just the right time from their wealthy industrialist father (played by William Hickey) who has just recently passed away.
This story is about a fisherman who lives on a somewhat dilapidated fishing boat with his beautiful "grandaughter".
But pic's originality is in the end let down by the final shoot out in a dilapidated warehouse, which is both shop-worn and pretentious.
They are forced to drive to the dilapidated ghost-town of Sunset Valley.
The girl lives with her parents; the mother, lauded as the town slut, and her dilapidated father who is rotting away in a wheelchair.
The story is about The Fuller Family, Connie played by Ann Sheridan and Bill by Jack Benny, who purchase an old dilapidated farmhouse in Pennsylvania where George Washington, himself, supposedly had slept there during the American Revolution.
The trace it to the now decrepit and dilapidated house and soon meet two brothers, their annoying sister, and one of the brother's girlfriend camping at the house.
The dilapidated, dusty set represents the emptiness of the soul that has lost great love, or has been deceived by a bewitching love.
So, the moral of the story is that you transition from being a boy into being a man by moving into your "baby's mamma"s dilapidated apartment and sell stolen clothes on the streets, while probably still cheating on her.
But I doubt that anyone was expecting a movie that spends close to 70% of its running time wallowing in the most boring fictionalized melodrama seen outside of network television in years and which relegates the fading divas of the dilapidated, Gothic ruin we so knew and loved (or hated, as the case may be) to an afterthought.
Clutch is a former boxer who lives in an apartment on Mulberry Street in New York.With his friend Coco they eagerly await for Clutch's daughter Casey to return home from Iraq.We also meet the other tenants in this dilapidated complex Charlie and Frank who are a couple of old timers and a bartender Kay and her teenage son.Unfortunately their place of living becomes hell,when New Yorkers mysteriously turn into bloodthirsty rat creatures."Mulberry
Evil lurks in the old and dilapidated Lusman Arms, an aging apartment building in severe disrepair with renovation abounding all over.
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