| 单词 | blight |
| 例句 | “So we hang our lives on a substandard, blighted—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The cause of this blight was well known: God had sent it as punishment for our sins. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Outsiders already looked upon Philadelphia as a blighted area. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He meant personally to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan, I think, and all other paths ever walked by the blight of mankind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The orchard’s pleasures now seemed blighted by the intrusion of Claudius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight—something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I can give no explanation how I came to this understanding, save that I did not want to become the blighted man who dangled before me, pillaged by the birds. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Oh. I thought that the lady was in charge,” Ignatius said in his most stentorian voice, finding the man the only blight in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the height of the American chestnut blight, every woodland breeze would lose spores in uncountable trillions to drift in a pretty, lethal haze on to neighboring hillsides. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The blight was spreading thick and fast; the greenery was withering, and trees fell as their roots died. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z As I drove out of town, I saw an ancient woman standing in a blighted field. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The city made good on its promise to bulldoze blighted areas, demolishing thousands of derelict houses and hundreds of crumbling businesses in Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The blight eased the pain of my father’s death, making it seem like a general state of affairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But I am particularly interested in the school business, because it seems to me that the blight can disappear only when there are millions of Coopers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z People had begun leaving in 1913, when the phylloxera blight ruined the currants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They changed markets and to this day believe they were the victims of a curious vegetable blight. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as though a blight had fallen upon Manderley, taking the sky away and the light of the day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Since being caught, he’d been locked up at the state penitentiary, a blight on the bureau best unseen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His eyes were open but he was no longer seeing the vermin-ridden trees around him, their blighted leaves, or the foul dark mud under his feet. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The grass, the withering leaves were full of whispering, but the campground was hushed, muffled by their presence, as if blighted. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Race issues still scarred civil society, certainly, but one problem that Americans were happy to live without was the blight that ravaged Europe in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s: militant nationalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My hair had become a blight, just like at Hillpark; people saw me coming and jumped from my path. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted—confidence destroyed! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Out in back is a homely garden that, even now, in mid-April, has root vegetables waiting to be dug—blighted potatoes and yams and tough-skinned carrots and turnips. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The Dead Period, when all my trees looked like they had been through a forest fire or a blight. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z This sort of person is a blight on good professionalism. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Something dark had crept into the blight’s tone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Momma loved those stories, and when the paper would come we'd read them together, marveling over tales of a frontier untouched by the blight of the restless dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z "Thankfully, the blight that's wiped out the other parks hasn't hit here. Yet." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “You told me they were to be eradicated. That they were a blight on the natural world.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And whether from its fumes or from the blighting of our hopes, my husband began to suffer again from rheumatism, and at the same time the old bouts of fever began. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that to Grigori, what had resembled a blight had probably been a modest building from the outside, so as to avoid making a target of itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Nothing prospered there in Hearth or tilth, all being blighted with illness, the spring seed frozen in the ground or the ripe grain rotten, and so it had been for many years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Alyce began to watch the man, not knowing he had long watched her and wondered what could so blight a person so young. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He never again was troubled by any blight or disease among them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He had turned back onto Jefferson for the long miles through the blighted East Side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I see. I don’t suppose any of us should have that responsibility for the blighted towns in the north of England?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They weren’t even on par with animals, but something low and demonic, a blight on the world, an abomination. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This I had believed with all my being, but now, though still inwardly affirming that belief, I felt a blighting hurt which prevented me from trying further to defend myself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Frenzied, the magistrate screamed, “And I know you all agree with me! This is a Christian village. Jews are a blight!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She says ’twould break your heart to think of what the English did to us, that if they didn’t put the blight on the potato they didn’t do much to take it off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "They say it's a blight—the trees are diseased. They have to chop them all down. Those beautiful trees." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The rancher examined a few plants and said he thought a blight had infested the plants. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z In surveying the forests from the air, vast blighted areas could be seen where the magnificent Douglas firs were turning brown and dropping their needles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The longer the Nogtail is left undetected and the bigger it grows, the longer the blight on the farm into which it has entered. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We had not known of plastic when I was a boy, and though it surely improved life in some ways, its presence in Qunu appeared to me to be a kind of blight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Perhaps you are indeed right. That boy has become a blight. We are best companions once more! Let's have celebrations galore!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Wheat got sick, so Sapiens had to keep a watch out for worms and blight. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z What was this blight that had come down over the people she loved? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And in the effort of it all, she had stunted herself, blighted herself, whittled herself to a bone of a thing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Leon and Harry, criminals with hearts of gold, are saving their money to open a restaurant and youth center in their blighted neighborhood. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Most of his work involves disaffected and dysfunctional Americans perpetrating gory acts of violence upon one another in environments that embrace both blighted urban apartments and affluent suburban homes. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Bordas is optimistic that with varieties such as these and their successors, boxwood’s place in the American garden is secure despite the blight woes. Boxwood wreaths are lovely but may carry a deadly disease 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The “incompetent cervix” joins a number of curious obstetric diagnoses: the “inhospitable uterus”, “hostile uterus”, “hostile cervical mucus”, “blighted ovum”. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Amid the blight, residents cleaned up the vacant lots, rejuvenating the area and creating safe, green spaces where they could grow food, relax and convene. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z In the past decade Athens’s downtown has become blighted: immigrants squat in dilapidated buildings; drug addicts writhe on the sidewalks; the walls of concrete apartment blocks are covered in graffiti. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z But the record was blighted by lyrics that crossed the line between the forcefully expressed, if often unpalatable ideas of SOC, and puerile, genuinely offensive, controversy for its own sake. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The two theaters have much in common: Both cities have been crippled by blight, manufacturing job losses and racial tensions. A two-time Tony Award winner headlines Signature Theatre’s annual gala 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z To not become just as much of an impossible-to-avoid blight on the human palate? Perspective | Checking out the New Bae in town 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The Paradise Club is a black-owned business in a black neighborhood, and Blue’s chance to sell arises because of the new mayor’s plan to clear the slums, thereby ridding the city of “blight.” Review: ‘Paradise Blue’ Rekindles Racial Drama in 1949 Detroit 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z But in areas blighted by poverty and neglect, a surging bohemian culture revels in the wreckage at “ruin pubs.” The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z Her tulip’s soft petals became blighted with track marks. Losing my twin 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z You also find some beauty in the blight they brought with them. Review: In ‘The Florida Project,’ Enchantment in a Shabby Motel 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He gets in a physical fight with Archie to stop him from tumbling into the kind of casual infidelity that blighted his own marriage. The marvelous men of "Maisel" on how Joel and Abe are evolving in season 3 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z She hikes across the blighted landscape of the Alzheimer's brain, trying to make neurological sense of it. My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of my Life by John Suchet; and Keeper: Living with Nancy. A Journey Into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z She reminds us that “racism continues to blight the health and growth of children in many different ways,” and then highlights continued disparities in medicine. Is This a Good Time to Be Born? Comparatively Speaking, Yes 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The area is now blighted by toxic landfills overseen by officials who view federal environmental regulation as disdainfully as Meaher once viewed Congress’s ban on the slave trade. A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Drug dependency, gangland warfare, and the blight and obliteration of mass poverty devastate isolated pockets of America’s greatest cities. Springsteen’s subversive joy: On the Bruce concert as antidote to nihilism and American self-destruction 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In fact, that sense of bifurcated sensibilities was present long before anyone imagined that a blighted and abandoned stretch of train tracks might be ripe for transformation. The High Line, by Day and Night - NYC 2011-08-26T21:49:05Z The connotation that gentrification is white flight equals black blight is one that I found worthy of debating and dancing with. Playwright takes on 'Clybourne Park' with new work 2013-05-17T14:44:07Z Ms. Zambello sets this scene in a blighted urban area, under a shoddy highway overpass: a poignant image. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z The absence of Farhadi and his message of peace through film will be a blight on what will no doubt be a politically-charged ceremony. Middle Eastern cinema has so much to say, and we need to be listening now more than ever 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Bacterial leaf spot, or basil shoot blight, is a major uh-oh when it comes to pathogens. How to grow basil, summer’s favorite herb 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Act II is blighted by a crippled beggar who turns out not to be a cripple, yet reappears later with crutches after Tybalt has died. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It took years for her to see the connection between her silence about the relationship and "the emotional shutting down" that had blighted much of her life. JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book 2012-02-13T08:02:09Z He saw Italy’s postwar boom as an irreversible blight, turning the masses into mindless consumers and erasing local cultures. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z The blight is spreading, but its effects are localized because the spores are sticky and are not airborne as with those of other fungi. Boxwood wreaths are lovely but may carry a deadly disease 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Once blighted and barely alive, Cruft Street now thumps with activity. Where do your NEA dollars really go? What we learned on an Indiana road trip. 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Since 2008, it has published a biennial list called “Freeways Without Futures,” which names highways whose elimination would, according to its website, “remove a blight” from their cities. Once So Chic and Swooshy, Freeways Are Falling Out of Favor 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Jane Corbin follows him across swamped Sindh, tracing a journey that reveals not only the scale of this recent catastrophe, but Pakistan's wider problems: poverty, corruption, and the blight of fundamentalism. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z It's not a blight – it really adds to the local area. ROA's graffiti rabbit faces removal by Hackney council 2010-10-25T22:12:00Z "The former Dixie Square Mall will truly be a memory of 'The Blues Brothers' and not a sign of blight and decay." Dixie Square Mall slated to be demolished 2012-02-15T19:56:00Z The difference is that Mr. Pritchett’s world is enlivened by his cheerful embrace of eccentricity, while Mr. Trevor’s London is drabber, sadder, a place of widows and widowers, blighted romances, unraveling relationships. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z And in America, ghettos house underprivileged communities in blighted urban neighborhoods. Social Q’s: A Plan for Making Friends on Facebook 2012-07-06T00:57:16Z The theme remains that of a powerful outsider, paranoid about his status and manipulated because of it, rather than the banal cruelties and thoughtless traditions that blight everyday life across India. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z “Love Island” leads into “Big Brother,” a show that has been blighted in the past with its share of controversial contestant dynamics, including revealing moments of bigotry. Are you watching "Love Island"? It's the feel-superior hit of the summer 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z They saw the end at last of those 19th-century depths of poverty that continued to blight the lives of the metropolitan working class till 1914. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z Not so much lately; it’s almost as if novels themselves had had to flee the post-1960s urban blight. Books of The Times: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit,’ Scott Lasser’s New Novel 2012-08-28T21:15:58Z The diamond industry has for the past two decades banished this blight through a certification scheme that has largely stamped out unethical trading. Diamonds have a dirty secret. But there's a climate-conscious solution 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The Playhouse was linked to development on H Street, where it opened on a blighted block. Perspective | In Southeast Washington, the Anacostia Playhouse is a star 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Violence, substance abuse, self-destruction and general prickishness is a blight on humanity, but it's a blight that should be dealt with by police and judges, not the media or the public. "The Hangover 2's" Mel Gibson hypocrisy 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z Fusarium grows on wheat in the field and can cause a common agricultural plant disease called fusarium head blight or scab. Fungi in flour can cause lots of ailments — but nothing like what happens in HBO's "The Last of Us" 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The family is occasionally harassed by marauders from the line of Cain, a clan that has blighted the planet with greed and industry, killing off animals and strip-mining precious minerals. Movie Review: Russell Crowe Confronts Life’s Nasty Weather in ‘Noah’ 2014-03-27T18:05:40Z Would it blight his life, or make him a stronger, better person? The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Many Broadway consumers shell out $100 or more for escapism, especially in the summer, not dispiriting messages about urban blight. In Tupac Shakur's 'Holler If Ya Hear Me,' an unlikely Broadway trip 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A Firehouse Fights to Save Lives, and Itself Urban blight isn’t just a matter of widespread poverty, deteriorating housing, dysfunctional schools and street crime. Movie Review: ‘Burn,’ Directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez 2012-11-09T01:50:28Z George Osborne cannot meet his fiscal targets, money is too tight to mention, and this Christmas will apparently be further blighted by a shortage of parsnips and brussels sprouts. Clash of the celebrity memoirs 2012-12-10T17:04:59Z Is the selfie a blight on the cultural landscape or a new form of folk art? How the Selfie Conquered the World 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Simultaneously, it also manages to grow into something else: a sweeping, elegiac novel about a blighted city. Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Remove yellowing and diseased foliage of tomato plants to stop the upward spread of blight. Delivering a connection with nature to Amazon’s HQ2, in the form of a 2.5-acre public garden 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z And so, we invested $100 million to clear some of the blighted properties. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan: ‘At some point, there’s no longer going to be a Donald Trump Party’ 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Most offensive to my eye was that awful cleanness that blights many costume dramas. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z “I can be silly. I can be a clown. I can make people enjoy themselves and maybe lighten the burden of a blight.” Lady Bunny Is Still the Shadiest Queen Around 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Winters dutifully traces Shepard’s major themes: the mutability of identity counterposed against the taint of heredity, the blight of “progress” and the fatal consequences of our alienation from the land. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z That’s why few people know quite how to feel about the debut film by Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation, only just now reaching theaters but already blighted by controversy. Bold and Fraught, The Birth of a Nation Merits Your Attention 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Other artists from the Midwest used the invitation to investigate Cleveland, which picked up the pejorative nickname “Mistake on the Lake” after a loss of manufacturing jobs and urban blight in the 1970s. With New Triennial, Cleveland Hopes to Become the Next Venice 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The whole idea was: 'Turn blight into bright.' How these 75-plus murals have turned three L.A. alleys into an outdoor art gallery 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Stern exhaustively traces her blighted life in this father-daughter relationship that never jelled. Always Leave Them Smiling: The Art of Al Hirschfeld 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Yes, the potato — a plant imported from South America by the British — had been ruined by blight, but the famine itself was avoidable. How did Irish-Americans get so disgusting? 2014-03-15T17:00:00Z The controlled reality is apparent in the photographs taken inside the Fifth Precinct, Gunther’s base in Newark’s blighted South Ward. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s a totem of American industrial might that having been carelessly or purposely forgotten, has become something more than junk blighting the landscape. | 'Rubber': The Tread Life on This Tire Is Something Else 2011-03-31T22:24:37Z You should, however, bag fallen diseased leaves — the foliage with black spot, mildew, leaf blights — to minimize problems next year. Perspective | The winter garden is full of promise and productivity. Don’t let it go to waste. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The latest, and in some ways most serious, malady is the boxwood blight, a fungus that targets many boxwood types but especially English box. Boxwood gets a makeover 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z A silent room – grey with a dusty blight Of loneliness;A room with not enough of light Its form to dress. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z This has been a great week for him, a good month for African writers — and a terrible year, he says, for his country, blighted by pandemic and corruption. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z But this was downtown Detroit, far better known in recent years for crime, blight and economic decline. Detroit Pushes Back With Young Muscles 2011-07-01T20:30:53Z Various rootstock hybrids have been developed to bestow different traits, including resistance to a slew of diseases that afflict such popular plants as tomatoes, including blight and wilt pathogens. The mad science behind vegetable grafting 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z This is the blight that some ambitious, intelligent movies are born for. | 'Margaret': ?Margaret,? Directed by Kenneth Lonergan - Review 2011-09-29T23:25:33Z But the blight is spreading, the dust storms are growing worse, and the sense of an ending is palpable. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Much of her career in the 21st century was blighted by long absences: severe injuries and a pregnancy. Review: Jennie Somogyi Stirs Memories in Her City Ballet Goodbye 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z My colleague Greg Sargent points out what he sees as the ongoing blight of media reports that bend over backward to appear evenhanded. Perspective | The media feel safest in the middle lane. Just ask Jeff Flake, John Kasich and Howard Schultz. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z There are no cruel disparities between rich and poor here; KL has none of the utter destitution that blights the downtowns of Indian cities. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z A highly improbable result would be a consistently funny and absorbing evening that revealed the flaws and disappointments afflicting these characters, and the rhythms of a hardscrabble livelihood in a blighted neighborhood. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z On his show, reality television is not a blight, a plague, a bad habit or even that thing you are watching instead of doing something — anything — “better.” Andy Cohen: Oozing, desperate, likable 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z The magnitude of childbirth is minimised for economic purposes, blighting an experience that could otherwise be infused with the purest bliss. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s a dangerous environment for both the dwellers and commuters, not to mention an atrocious blight in the heart of our beautiful city. Daily Rant&Rave: Rescue from Hurricane Odile 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Although clefts had, in the past, often been a genuine blight right up into adulthood, nowadays they were in most cases eminently fixable. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The most brutal enclaves of the city are the most troubled Chicago neighborhoods—poor, characterized by excessive unemployment, blight, food deserts, underperforming schools, high rates of preventable diseases, lack of economic development. We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Her marriage to the man was blighted by consistent violence, before Celinda was able to leave him. Rising teenage pregnancy rates in east Asia-Pacific spark health warning 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Africatown was designated as a historic district in 2009 but has been long blighted by a paper plant and pollution; zoning protections came much too late for its residents. Sundance: ‘Descendant’ chronicles a Black history uncovered 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In 1904 a new blight left just 2 of the forest’s 1,500 chestnuts standing. Critic?s Notebook: Where the Lenape Trod 2011-11-03T22:02:38Z We begin with a brief reminder that London ain’t what it used to be, because gentrification is a scourge and blight upon us all. The Most Cringeworthy Moments From Emilia Clarke’s Sexiest Woman Alive Profile 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, only four years older than Wagner, was baptized as an infant; still, Wagner held up his former idol’s ethnicity as a sign of artistic blight. Music Review: Jewish Themes, and Mendelssohn, at Bargemusic 2010-06-27T21:03:00Z They now stand in a blighted landscape of derelict buildings, closed factories, shops and workshops, cleared sites, shuttered abandoned pubs with tattered "for sale" signs flapping in the wind. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z The Meaning of Conservativism, he says, "blighted what remained of my academic career". Roger Scruton: A pessimist's guide to life 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Just like that, you go from blight into a perfect beach town of cobblestone streets, candy stores and what my mother would recognize as tchotchke shops. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z That earth is a cruel, blighted land where poverty and racial discrimination send people scrambling for refuge. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Heaven and Earth 2013-07-02T16:03:02Z With its panoply of hundreds of youth orchestras and teaching centers, El Sistema serves hundreds of thousands of young people, most from poor rural families or blighted barrios. Gustavo Dudamel and Los Angeles Philharmonic Hailed in Caracas 2012-02-14T23:33:58Z What drives neighbours to blight their daily lives with unpleasant, bitter and confrontational disputes? Why being wrong really hurts 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z According to Crowe, pigeons are a blight on touring bands and large venues, a hidden menace lurking in the rafters. The Stills offer their side of Kings of Leon pigeon-gate 2010-07-27T09:22:00Z Adam’s primal disobedience did not affect him alone; it blighted human nature forever in the eyes of God. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Despite Opera North's excellent production in 1992, this queasy study of the ageing Elizabeth I, and her infatuation with the young Earl of Essex, has always seemed blighted. Gloriana; 66th Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-22T23:05:50Z On reflection, the fact that Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's blighted second album essentially consisted of four long jams may have indicated a lack of material. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z Even by that standard, “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” which opened on Monday at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, is a blight. Review: Hot Stuff Turns Cold in ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z It had been a while since I’d encountered the sort of high-rise development that so blights many Mediterranean shores, and I’d forgotten how malignant it can feel, how obtrusive. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Those first months were intense and electric, but blighted by loss. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Despite a great line-up and lovely weather, the weekend was blighted by crowds and queues. Latitude 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z A scene unthinkable just a few years ago, it is now commonplace in an area that used to be blighted by armed conflict between the government and soldiers from ethnic groups fighting for greater autonomy. Fight against malaria unites old foes in Myanmar 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Social pressures are at work here, too, but in the play the women manage the blighting all on their own. Review: ‘Women Without Men,’ a Learning Experience of Sorts 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “The Arbor” is the nickname for the blighted housing complex in northern England where Ms. Dunbar grew up and where her plays were set. Tribeca Film Festival: 12 Days, 132 Films, 38 Countries 2010-04-16T00:04:00Z That said, Pavarotti made his UK debut in 1963 at the beautiful Grand Opera House in Belfast, a Frank Matcham theatre blighted by frequent bomb damage since 1969 but now restored to its former glory. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z In India, for example, warming temperatures have already been associated with cardamom blight in the state of Sikkim and decreases in yields of Kashmiri saffron. When it comes to sustainable spices, ‘single-origin’ isn’t everything 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z An award-winning science writer looks at the disproportionate exposure to pollution and blight — from lead poisoning to industial waste — faced by minority groups, with direct consequences for their success. New in Paperback: ‘The Testaments’ and ‘The Patient’s Checklist’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z So dramatic that the phrase “Bilbao effect” now describes the efforts of any city to remake itself from industrial blight into tourist attraction by investing heavily in the arts. | Choice Tables: In Bilbao, It?s Not Just the Museum 2010-10-07T02:19:00Z It is also a deprived area, one that has been blighted by deprivation, drugs and crime. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z He might be interested in having an art museum, he said, but “not in the context of ‘We’re blighted, this is going to make us unblighted,’ ” he said. Robin Parness Lipson Works for New Jersey Art Museum 2010-08-17T22:31:00Z Train tracks didn’t cut narrow tracks through the primeval forest, but blighted wide swaths of the landscape, and the cleared field was no longer bounded by the infinite wood. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This emphasis on so-called serious music arguably blighted his composing career. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z We can’t all be Steve Jobs, of course, but these days, landing a fulfilling middle-class job seems like a lottery win, and gun violence born of desperation an ever more prevalent blight. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Yet Newark is a violent and blighted city. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It tells the story of a community plot in a blighted urban neighborhood, and of all that takes root there: not just vegetables, but hope, trust, camaraderie and a commitment to change. Review: In ‘Seedfolks,’ Harvesting Hope and Humanity in a Community Garden 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Michael Darling, the chief curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, said Mr. Gates’s project was emblematic of a growing movement to mix art, urban planning and activism in blighted communities. Chicago News Cooperative: In Dorchester, a House Becomes a Home for Art 2011-04-08T03:34:41Z “The point was to think of the whole lot not as a blight but as a space for architectural invention worth engaging with, warts and all,” Ms. Theodore stressed. Arts & Leisure: Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces 2012-01-06T14:58:15Z But the same unloving chill is blighting both this ballet and the company’s “Swan Lake.” Mariinsky Ballet Concludes Brooklyn Run With Chopin 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Farming according to this pattern protects the food supply from shock weather and blights. The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Because early blight starts in the soil, where its spores are apt to splash up and infect lower leaves, it pays to mulch the soil with hay or straw. Taking a bite out of tomato blight 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z James “Jack Rabbit” Jackson is a retired cop who keeps neighborhood watch in an area blighted by break-ins and vandalism. ‘Street Fighting Men’ Review: Reviving Detroit From Within 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The project was partly inspired, he said, by one completed last year along a blighted commercial stretch of West Philadelphia by the artist Steve Powers. Now Everyone Can Read the Writing on the Wall 2010-10-26T22:05:00Z In lesser shows their relative lack of development would be a blight. The must-see "Pachinko" is a pure and flawless beauty about the unpredictability of living 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z This is as far away from the urban blight and shoot-em-up nature of the typical black series, typified by the Starz network’s Power. Is this a golden age for black TV makers or another false dawn? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Be careful with boxwood; you may be bringing in boxwood blight that will spread to any existing boxwood in the yard. Why every garden should have a potted tree (and how to grow them) 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Easy enough, until the pair encountered the same issues faced by residents in these blighted neighborhoods. Can an art project (finally) save a neighborhood? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z We live in a society that fetishises overwork, whether it is the side hustle you balance on top of your full-time job or the toxic culture of presenteeism that increasingly blights British offices. Six ways to stay healthy when you're stressed 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Yet a livelier drumbeat lightened all that bleak melodrama about a blighted era tumbling out of control. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z At night, she said, I wouldn’t need to go far, either: The Beat was right on Fremont Street, a once blighted, now resurgent downtown block that had great bars and a nice kebab shop. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z Their own experiences fed into conversations that shaped the record, and reinforced one of its more subtle messages – that the blights on Africa are by no means confined to the continent. Damian Marley and Nas: 'We have a lot in common' 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z That was 15 years ago, back when the area was blighted by panhandlers and hourly-rate motels. Discovering well-designed Fargo, N.D. It’s just past Corktown, a blighted area undergoing a painstaking revitalization, chiefly organized around a few bars and Slows Bar B Q, a restaurant so popular that it draws lines of locals and suburbanites nightly. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: The Westin Book Cadillac, in Detroit 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z But, alas, there’s no travel in these blighted times. A Mediterranean-Inspired Menu to Keep You Going All Day 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z I told them I felt like an outsider and a second-class citizen in my own home — like I was a blight on an otherwise perfect family of three. I Have a Real-Life Wicked Stepmother. How Do I Handle Her? 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Once a substantial block of blight, a former Sears distribution center has been rebuilt as the vertical village Crosstown Concourse. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Her 24th book, “The Four Winds,” which comes out on Tuesday, seems eerily prescient in 2021, with its Depression-era tale of blighted land, xenophobia, fear of contagion — and determination to join forces and rebuild. Kristin Hannah Reinvented Herself. She Thinks America Can Do the Same. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z His stage was always a space of exhilarating agitation, rife with evidence of blight and decay, often couched as a mourning for a disappeared American West and the pioneering spirit that once defined it. Sam Shepard’s plays eulogized the American West’s pioneering spirit 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The production company shot on Fremont Street, an area that was once so blighted and dangerous that it belonged in an episode of “Cops.” Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z And the doomed innocence of Thomas and Randall's friendship and their in-tandem education, an experiment that Wyatt Bayly oversees without regard for the blight that society is likely to attach to it. In novel 'The Right-Hand Shore,' past is a burden 2012-04-30T17:11:11Z With three restaurants and a conference center, the tower, which opened in 2005, is reminiscent of a grain silo, and it has been criticized by Unesco for blighting the landscape. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z The recent civil war that blighted the country for a decade has denuded it of all its wildlife, infrastructure and hope, Theroux discovers. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z “Going There,” as she calls the Epic of Couric, might as well be subtitled “Owning This,” starting with rattlesome family skeletons: subdued Judaism on one side, “blighted with racists” on the other. In Katie Couric’s ‘Going There,’ There Includes Family Skeletons, Busting Into the Boys’ Club and More 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Setting the story in an economically blighted Southern town ensures the eight-episode series enables Hall, who serves as showrunner, to maintain focus on topics and social flashpoints other writers may downplay or leave out entirely. Eyes up here: In "P-Valley," the strippers and their grueling labor are the headliners, not men 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Unless you spray against early blight, keeping a plant clean and healthy becomes a constant battle of grooming, root-watering and bed-mulching. A hotter, more volatile 2016 leaves this gardener rethinking tomato timing 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z His message for audiences today is young people in blighted communities just need someone who really cares. Kartemquin: Chicago film-makers on 50 years of slam dunk documentaries 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z In other words, whatever the causes of the white-middle-aged blight, its effects will likely radiate outward, affecting the generations around it. The Decline of White, Middle-Aged America, Onstage 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z His 1971 epic The Last Movie proved a critical and commercial disaster and his middle years were blighted by drug and alcohol abuse. Dennis Hopper dies at 74 2010-05-29T17:30:00Z But whether it is a cultural blight or just harmless fun is the subject of much debate among its reluctantly forthcoming viewers. The A-List? They Must Be Grading on a Curve 2011-07-29T21:12:58Z Perhaps it's the desire to eradicate the queuing, the only blight of 2009's inaugral event, or the intent to cater for so many age groups, using so many genres? Clubs picks of the week 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Simon Thurley, English Heritage's chief executive, said of the £27m makeover: "These are crucial steps which bring closer the transformation of the currently blighted Stonehenge landscape." Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z A new and seriously damaging disease named boxwood blight can be brought to a property unwittingly. An easy, elegant and strangely addictive holiday project: DIY boxwood wreaths 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z These are crucial steps which bring closer the transformation of the currently blighted Stonehenge landscape. Stonehenge funding package unveiled 2011-04-04T15:16:17Z Movie spoofs are mostly a blight, but this affectionate tribute to blaxploitation is a hilarious delight. This week's new cinema releases 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z There were people who couldn't see the fuss and, most intriguingly to my mind, people who thought the Beatles were a blight on rock'n'roll. Readers recommend songs about the Beatles: The results 2010-10-07T22:30:00Z Rather than dwell on blight, though, “The Get Down” celebrates the tenacity and vim of the area’s black and Latino youth. All beat, no heart 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z From ancient Egypt to czarist Russia, from sub-Saharan Africa to the Aztecs, forms of slavery have blighted nearly every continent. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z A deeply woven study of misogyny, misplaced religion and the blight of colonial occupation. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z Mostly when I explained the project to people they would become very excited and ask if we were including the horrific local attraction that had blighted their childhood. Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out 2011-08-20T23:06:23Z Christie’s session opened with artists rarely seen at auction, bringing welcome relief from the sense of déjà-vu that blights contemporary art auctions. A Dreary Sense of Duty Reigns at Auctions 2010-07-02T16:30:00Z The neighborhood, long synonymous with urban blight, is an unconventional choice for a swanky art gallery. The Honfleur Gallery hasn’t “saved” Anacostia, but it has made a home for art there Cruise ships blight the scenery, ravage the canals and disgorge their day trippers. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z So just across the street from such blighted scenes young children with violins and French horns and trumpets filled the spaces of an elementary school on Tuesday. El Sistema, Venezuela?s Plan to Help Children Through Music 2012-02-15T23:42:27Z They are particularly susceptible to fire blight, a withering bacterial disease. A New Golden Age for Cider Production in New York 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z From the end of World War II until 2011 this was one of Berlin’s most blighted areas — in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, sprawling beneath three sets of elevated tracks. My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It sounds great – there's space between all the instruments, with none of the compression that blights many albums today. Neil Young: Americana – review 2012-05-31T20:59:02Z Instead, we see the buildup to that cultural moment: artists reacting to AIDS, Reagan-era social policies, urban blight and gentrification, and a stock market boom and bust. Art Review: Identity Politics in ‘I, YOU, WE’ at the Whitney 2013-06-20T22:13:11Z Director Tom Hooper, who has since won an Oscar for The King's Speech, worked hard to remove the romanticism that so often blights historical dramas. Your next box set: John Adams 2012-07-26T17:20:01Z The second performance at Hull Truck theatre, which I saw, was blighted by bad weather and cancellations so the outstanding team had to perform to a few rows of children and a few elders. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z All those elements were packed into “Hill Street Blues,” which followed a diverse squad policing a blighted urban landscape under the patient leadership of a tightly wound precinct captain named Frank Furillo. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z Ms. Williamson sees the two-party system of today as blighted and controlled by corporate interests. Marianne Williamson: A Politico or Apolitical? 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z It lies in the strangely blighted lives of many writers for children, and in the ambiguous attraction that small children held both for and for . Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z Gardeners turn these otherwise blighted lots into vegetable and flower gardens. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez planted a community garden plot. It’s good for the earth — and her. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Ron Rash's stories, set in the Appalachian mountains, are portraits of rural desperation, of lives blighted by poverty, drugs and grief. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z No word yet on whether the grim spectacle of Snow Patrol's headline set will blight our screens, but don't bet against it. TV highlights 06/07/2012 2012-07-05T19:00:01Z It’s a halcyon vision of the Old Country, tarnished by one blight—Eilis’s boss in the store—who might as well come on-screen wearing devil’s horns and a pointed tail. The Sanitized Past of “Brooklyn” 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z When it was conceived, the center was presented as a visionary plan to clear out what some urban planners considered blighted Manhattan neighborhoods to make room for a cultural oasis. Review: Can a Five-Hour Performance Capture 50 Years of Opera? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Which is to say, kitchens were heavily symbolic sites long before any of us became involved with the ones that bless or blight our individual lives. Art Review: The Heart That Beats, Heats, Chills and Whips 2010-09-19T22:42:00Z Back then, the rapper's gigs were usually blighted by puerile skits. V Festival: day one ? review 2011-08-21T17:17:01Z Gerald recounts his journey from a blighted Dallas neighborhood to the toast of the 1 percent with great lyricism and emotion. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It was seen only as this blight, just this disease that's being either handled or not. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In contrast to the sprawl that blights many other classical festivals, Ojai is a concentrated burst of intellectual energy, easily reached just outside Los Angeles. 15 Classical Music Festivals to See This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z But there were also some really nice touches, like Rachel and Coleman arguing in the middle of a field; twin blights on the landscape, equally out of step with the bucolic location and each other. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 6: Breakdown 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Even 175 years after Ireland's devastating famine caused by an introduced potato blight, we're still struggling to combat these diseases. What was behind Australia’s potato shortage? Wet weather and hard-to-control diseases 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z That, for example, in the early 1900s, the American chestnut was nearly wiped out by a blight and that one of the first warning signs was a mysterious orange fungus on the bark. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Also, remove lower leaves as they yellow to check the spread of blight. Do you have rocks in your bed? 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z On the other, Glasgow is damp, half-ruined by a motorway and blighted by poverty. On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford – review 2013-04-12T14:01:00Z It’s a message that resonates with particular force at this rancorous, divided moment in America’s story, when so many of us are in willful denial of the grim legacies of the past blighting our present. Slavery’s Repercussions Unspool in a Dark Southern Tale 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z So you don’t think the graffiti is a blight? Fashion Fans in Line, for a ‘Hack’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Be it of Benghazi fight Or the latest e-mail blight. Style Invitational Week 1190: You’re workin’ on a chain, gang 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z "It just takes a minority to destroy murals and turn them from oases of art to graffiti-ridden blights," says Twitchell, rubbing his snow white beard thoughtfully. L.A. again carries a torch for 1984 Olympic murals, their artists 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Price gouging isn't just caused by inflation or supply shortages; rather, it's a combination of economic blight brought on by the pandemic and our disdain for the dullness of local politics. Coffee and community improvement districts: Unpacking the mystery of the $7 Starbucks macchiato 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Stealing, racing and setting fire to random automobiles, the crew is a blight on the beauty around them. Review: In ‘Trespass Against Us,’ a Thieving Clan and a Yearning to Escape 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z "The Journals of Musan" is shot with a shaky hand-held camera against a blighted background, often circling an empty, unpaved lot near the fictional Chun's apartment, which is slated for demolition. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z There's Liam, who grew up blighted by a rare medical condition requiring him to wear headphones around his neck like a pretty necklace at all times. One Direction: This Is Us trailer – the film that brings you 1D in 3D 2013-07-23T13:01:00Z Add to that list the Maldives, a micro-nation blighted by repression, political gangsters and, increasingly, Wahhabi extremists. A darker shade of blue 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z His subsequent career was blighted by drug abuse, although he worked sporadically up his death at the age of 38. Hollywood snubs Corey Haim at Oscars 2011-02-28T06:27:25Z Eight years and four children later, Ben arrives, a blight on Harriet and David’s domestic idyll. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The Wetro light rail zipping overhead creates a splash zone of urban blight in its wake. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The author of “Walden” couldn’t have imagined that billions of our woody parents would be destroyed by a blight in the early 20th century. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z This sweeping story twists, turns and subverts readers’ expectations, while also growing into something else: an elegiac novel about a blighted city. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Fortunately, the British Gas Engineering Research Station still stands proudly over the surrounding suburban blight. Newcastle's Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism 2013-06-19T10:50:59Z For some, hopes for a Newark renewal rest on the willingness of young professionals to look past the danger, the blight, and the civil-rights violations. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The blight is providing a similar impetus and new cultivars are on the horizon. Boxwood wreaths are lovely but may carry a deadly disease 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Like many of his peers, L’Enfant managed to miss the largest blight of all. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey It's a very common thing that, when you see a woman with power in the public or political sphere, people will be like, "Oh my god, she's going to blight my crops!" "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The story it tells is, after all, of a paradise sought but never found; or if found, blighted, which paradise cannot be. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z The trembling feeling of that sound, booming down boulevards in Oakland, the Bronx, and Detroit are part of America’s cultural DNA, the ghost of Reagan-era blight. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A Chicago native, he grew up in the notoriously blighted Cabrini-Green Homes, which have since been razed. Art, Darling 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Of how, “in this blighted place, he learned to live again”. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The year is 1925 and there are already the first rumblings of the economic storms that will blight the end of the decade. How Downton Abbey helped to rescue Highclere Castle from ruin 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z By 1900, a peach blight had sent many who worked in the orchards down to seek work in the valley, or to leave the area entirely. Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z "In solitude, he pollutes himself, and with his own hand blights all his prospects for both this world and the next," Kellogg continued in his decry of self-pleasure. Once a cure for deviant behaviors, Kellogg's Corn Flakes continue to be a blueprint for all cereals 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z It was there, too, that in 1922 he was first committed to a mental hospital, suffering from the bipolar disorder that would blight the rest of his life. Philharmonia/Lucas 2010-08-16T20:30:00Z Berkoff's version should be suitably muscular as it tears away the rhetoric that so often blights the play to reveal the real tragedy of a man who sees but who cannot see the truth. This week's new theatre 2011-02-19T00:05:55Z Someone just asked me about tomato varieties resistant to the early blight disease that plagues his community garden in Northwest Washington. Taking a bite out of tomato blight 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z "We've been conned into assuming that when we put in renewable, it doesn't matter that they blight the countryside," he said, "because they're saving the planet." Peep Show creators came within a week of making Flight of the Conchords 2013-05-21T16:31:51Z Her aphoristic distillation of capitalism, racism, misogyny and other cultural blights defines a certain kind of progressive thinking that is common in large tracts of the arts world. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z If the Housing and Urban Development Department is revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, why not include gallery space? Rocco Landesman, N.E.A. Chief, Storms Washington 2010-04-07T20:20:00Z “Would that we in New York City could find as effective measures to control our social blight of juvenile delinquency,” he added. ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Even in late summer, in a year when drought and wildfires blighted California, water never seemed to be lacking. Sky-high trekking: taking on California’s High Sierra Trail 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The difference here is that that blighted landscape is an American city, Detroit, that is still home to hundreds of thousands of people. TV Weekend: Low Winter Sun and Detroit as Urban Desert 2013-08-09T13:55:05Z Opioids are perceived as an embarrassing blight in already depressed areas of the country, and addiction is largely seen as a metaphor for weakness, a failure of the will. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Green Grounds, the volunteer organization he helped found three years ago to install vegetable gardens in vacant lots and sidewalk medians in blighted areas. Urban Gardening: An Appleseed With Attitude 2013-05-03T22:50:32Z But these neighborhoods weren’t extremely blighted to begin with. Study: Seattle remains untouched by gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Their temporary home is blighted by peeling walls, dodgy wiring and hostile neighbours. Nightmare on asylum street: His House, the horror film about the migrant crisis 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith's life was blighted by tragedy. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z The self-doubt that can blight even our most intimate moments no longer prevails. Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The terrible blight that has overwhelmed cotton towns such as Rochdale began then, and has grown worse since. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Thinking of it now, I cringe and detest my blighted 33-year-old self. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z This year it didn’t take much looking to see waves being made by several books and catalogs that delved deeper into familiar areas or pioneered new ones, adding some euphoria to our blighted moment. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z As I read the novel again, I thought of “Rosemary’s Baby,” a contemporaneous tale of a New York woman with a blighted womb trapped in a bad marriage and a piece of prime real estate. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But all of this feels like a too tidy garden that has been planted for the sole purpose of introducing a blight and observing its ravages. In ‘Still Alice,’ a Professor Slides Into Alzheimer’s 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Set in a near-future U.S. blighted by disastrous climate change and a baffling, incurable new disease, the book is narrated by Joy, a young woman abandoned as an infant by her mother. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He also addresses the “less sophisticated” critics who don’t appreciate “the award-winning classical architectural designs and timeless beauty we bring to downtown’s heretofore urban decay and blight.” Roundup: Da Vinci developer speaks, Gurlitt's hoard, Le Corbusier's past 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Technically, you could say it belongs to a genre that is regarded by some as the great blight of Broadway: the jukebox musical, which uses back catalogs of popular recording artists as scores. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But they are not as sickly as boxwood of yore, assuming they are free of blight, and very much worth planting instead of, say, azalea or hydrangea. Boxwood gets a makeover 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Palm City, the fictional metropolis at the center of “The Cape,” is similarly blighted, but you would never know it from the panoramic shots supplied. Television Review: A Man With a Cape And a City to Salvage 2011-01-06T22:54:36Z Only the down-at-the heels marina, with its rusted railings and creaky dinghies, blighted the postcard image. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z Blair's career was subsequently blighted by drug problems.With scary children more in demand than ever, directors have become more responsible, though, and it often looks worse than it really is. Should children be allowed to act in harrowing films? 2013-03-04T15:54:47Z It suffers from the same scattergun quality that blights most new sketch shows but Novak's skits are so impressively daring and suitably mischievous that you're eventually pummelled into sniggering submission. Prankster's paradise: Fonejacker hits the streets 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z He equates the modern police officer with a slave-plantation overseer, police oppression blighting the lives of generations of black men. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z One who grows into possibly the most relentlessly creepy child to ever blight a marriage, or a cinema screen. ‘Vivarium’ Review: This Is Not Your Beautiful House 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The essay is a blight — an outsize one, given that it shares the book’s name — on an otherwise fine collection and flatly contradicts what he has argued throughout its pages. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The bare ankles reduce the spread of early blight, which moves from the soil upward. D.C.’s biblical rains drowned my tomatoes. Can they be resurrected? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z As for our new housing, after a decade of bluster, profligate policy initiatives and relentless bullying, this remains a blight on the landscape, a stain on our collective soul, a national disgrace. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Ms. Brown sings ardently in a vibrato-rich voice, and both are suitably toned and attractive, befitting a world before the creation of blights like cellulite. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z Karla Wozniak’s pictures of pastoral landscapes blighted by roadside signage are made in thick, crusty patches resembling colored concrete; they combine Cubism and Pop with satisfying, painterly punch. Art Review: Learning About the Marketplace and Entering It 2011-08-11T21:32:30Z From Beasts of the Southern Wild to Bombay Beach, Killing Them Softly to The Queen of Versailles, Hollywood took us on a guided tour of a land blighted by ecological and economic collapse. What cinema showed us in 2012 2012-12-27T07:00:00Z Here, TAL spends five months at Harper High, speaking to pupils, teachers and even gangs about the persistent blight of gun crime in the area. Catch-up TV guide: from The Big Reunion to Community Channel 2013-03-09T06:00:07Z There’s a war going on out there — aphids, blight and other scourges too numerous to mention vs. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z How was he supposed to fashion a flawless dream environment, with urban blight as the backdrop? Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z And are we likely to coax better behavior from Chatty Cathy by letting her know we think she’s a blight on society? Social Q?s: How to Choreograph the End of a Call 2011-03-10T19:55:58Z With issues such as corruption, climate disruption and racism blighting the country's horizon, her characters wonder if the golden age is behind them. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But for fans of grunge it was yet another reminder of the way heroin had blighted the scene ever since its inception in the mid-80s. Mike Starr and the deadliest musical genre 2011-03-10T08:15:27Z Star Matt Damon shines bright, but all else in blight, in this egregiously dewy family drama Neal Preston / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation As human-interest stories go, this one’s a beaut. Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography 2011-12-22T16:00:34Z His account is both immediate and shadowed by the passage of time, evoking a vanished world all but erased by war and the blight of communism. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z We have acres of empty offices, a blight of vacant blocks in our cities – so why not turn them into homes? Home truths: how the housing market is threatening affordable workspaces 2013-01-28T16:47:51Z The conversion of blighted places into space to play speaks to the special resilience of this postwar, postwall city. What Makes Berlin a Playground Paradise 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The rest is culled from interviews with the smaller fry who mustered a contentious public protest at what they saw as an ugly, bulging blight on the surrounding neighborhoods. | 'In the Footprint': A Brooklyn Civics Lesson, Offered in Word and Song 2010-11-23T23:00:00Z The scene is a patch of bombed-out urban blight, rimmed with barbed wire. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z I watched siblings pull their flailing parents away from tangled mountains of once-pristine collections of books, records, and antique toys blighted by time and inattention. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Vesuvius erupted so often in the 18th century that crops were blighted all over western Europe, causing vicious hikes in bread prices and widespread hunger. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z It will be hard to tell who is most seriously injured as attention focuses on rising hospital waiting lists, or falling hopes for a blighted, workless generation. Arts for everyone is cheap considering its rich returns 2010-07-27T19:36:00Z She shows up late in the blighted summer of 1876, when San Francisco is in the throes of a smallpox epidemic and an unbearable heat wave. Books of The Times: In ‘Frog Music,’ Emma Donoghue Delves Into Unsolved Crime 2014-04-07T20:53:50Z Reinforcing the secondhand hard-boiled atmosphere are the Pittsburgh locations, all industrial blight and urban debris, and a foreboding synthesizer-heavy soundtrack. Television Review: ‘Those Who Kill’ Joins ‘Bates Hotel’ on Monday Nights 2014-03-02T23:20:45Z Detroit’s not the only city that has swaths of blight. A Walk Through the ‘Barbarian’ Basement With Zach Cregger 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “Until Proven Safe” includes chapters on pests and agricultural blight, including forecasts of an impending “chocpocalypse.” The Extraordinary History (and Likely Busy Future) of Quarantine 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Crises along the way include an encounter with a ghost ship carrying that 20th-century blight, nuclear weapons. The Film Festivals of New York: A Tasting Menu 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Study: Poverty causes poor decision making Topics: , , , Decision, study, , A man walks past blighted row houses and vacant lots in Baltimore, Monday, April 1, 2013. Study: Poverty causes poor decision making 2013-09-09T21:08:00Z It’s a rush of exhilaration and freedom and possibility in a jam-packed island of mothers wielding strollers like battering rams, young men screaming into cellphones, the beautiful, the hideous, the blighted, the golden. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z Designed in the mid-1990s by Mario Botta, the museum’s masonry exterior always conveyed something of the air of a mausoleum, closing the building off from what was still a blighted part of the city. For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The plants can attract unappetizing blights like spider mites, fungus gnats, powdery mildew and grey mold, also called bud rot. Should I grow my own weed at home? Here's what you need to know 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The boxwood will be replaced with new varieties developed to be resistant to the blight. Melania Trump’s Rose Garden redo draws criticism, but it’s long overdue 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Detroit in the early 1960s was a symbol not of urban decline and Rust Belt blight, but of high hopes and youthful dreams. Review: ‘Once in a Great City’ Chronicles Detroit’s Glory Days 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Because their actions blight the lives of their victims, and there's no such thing as a victimless crime. Readers recommend: songs about criminals 2011-03-24T23:58:01Z While the show deals with gentrification and police brutality, it also illustrates the transformation of a blighted space into a community garden. A Puppet Festival Returns to New York, All Grown Up 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z They cite his unrealized Plan Voisin for Paris in the 1920s, in which he wanted to replace the urban blight of the Marais quarter with 18 glass towers on a rectangular grid with green space. Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z When Cuomo signed the recent ban into law, he stated, “These floating billboards are a nuisance that blight our shores and distract from the great natural beauty of our waterways.” The Trumpian Origins of New York’s Floating Billboard Problem 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z In “The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick,” an ailing India hand brings escape to lives blighted by a mean-spirited, dry-hearted landlady. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “The most arresting aspect of ‘The Road’ is just how fully the filmmakers have realized this bleak, blighted landscape of a modern society reduced to savagery,” Mr. Scott wrote in November. DVDs: Stealing From the Rich, Sherwood-Style, Over Years 2010-05-22T07:04:00Z What’s grown up around it is the kind of urban blight that characterizes much of the city. 36 Hours in Baltimore 2012-09-19T17:39:37Z There is still room in this blighted world for the kind of visionary experience from which hope not only springs, but flourishes. Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Rubell’s work invites multiple interpretations, including ones that suggest the idea of a “taint” or stain or ineradicable blight, and others that speak directly to ideas of wealth and the cultural laundering of wealth. Perspective | The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Well, the queasy, robot-voiced narration that blights this documentary, for starters. BBC Proms: Jamie Cullum Night 2010-08-27T05:45:00Z Too often, it must be said, they invited this; corruption, including bent umpiring, ball-tampering and, more recently, the blight of match-fixing, has been increasingly evident in Pakistani cricket, as in Pakistan. Batting for survival 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Unlike the anti-urban rhetoric of a generation ago, which stressed scenes of urban decay — ramshackle buildings and trash-strewn empty streets — the NRA focuses not on blight but vibrancy. Perspective | One of the world’s greatest sculptors warns America about the NRA 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z That respect for the ineffable has been translated into the most imaginative and inspired use to date of a popular composer’s songbook in this blighted era of the jukebox musical. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The sci-fi picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway follows pioneering astronauts as they search for inhabitable worlds beyond our own blighted planet. Box office: 'Interstellar' launches ticket sales to the cosmos Friday 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z But if being called Rupert boosted his chances, it was a blight on his early years. Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z When Alexander, who has died aged 90, was being considered for the part, she told her agent she worried that “the end result might be a blight on my career”. Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “It’s a 101 introduction to a situation in South America that most Americans and Europeans don’t know about,” he added, because of “years and years of blighted journalism.” Oliver Stone?s Latin America in ?South of the Border? 2010-06-26T01:42:00Z It’s all a symptom of suburban congestion—and, perhaps, also of a blighted dream, as life “in the country” increasingly replicates the ills of the city left behind. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Now the major issue here is not blight, but gentrification. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Criminality and anti-social behaviour from a young age had left me and many of my peers with tainted and blighted lives almost beyond repair. Gordon Behind Bars: the task he faces 2012-06-27T10:54:30Z The problem, though, is that Omega Station also doubled-down on the larger structural problems that have blighted this second season. True Detective: season two, episode eight recap – Omega Station 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z “When planners use words like blight and underdeveloped, it’s like actually what you are talking about is available land.” | Theaster Gates in Conversation With Doug Aitken 2014-01-23T01:20:17Z Rather, it reflects a common problem blighting magazines for teenagers these days and explains why all of them should be worried about what has happened to More! More! is no more – and that's a sad message for tomorrow's teenagers 2013-04-23T19:00:01Z He endows his blighted characters with an instinctive gift for poetry that gropes for patterns in a random and unforgiving universe. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But Peña is responsible for putting her in that situation, and the blight on his conscience is nothing compared to the physical and psychological consequences for her. 'Narcos' Episode 2 Recap: Death to Kidnappers 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Staring in puzzlement at tables holding blighted stalks of wheat, she leaned down to swat a bug. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 2 Recap: Enjoy the Silence 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Acknowledging the long harrowing history of how alcohol has blighted the countless lives of those prone to the terrible addiction and their families, I do feel sorry for people who can't casually drink. I drink while I do everything else, why wouldn't my cooking benefit if I drink while I do it? 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The Cove is on the eastern edge of Midtown, a recently blighted area where artists have taken root. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z A blight has killed all wheat, and governments heavily encouraged every able-bodied man to become a corn farmer to keep humanity alive. 'Interstellar' explores outer and inner spaces 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The Tamil insurgency, which blighted Sri Lanka for nearly 30 years, made travel hazardous. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The vibrant redcoat of a British bugler returning to blighted Manchester from the Battle of Waterloo is a rare blaze of color throughout much of Mike Leigh’s “Peterloo.” The Week in Arts: Martha Graham, ‘Ink’ and Let’s Eat Grandma 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Finally, the New York State Urban Development Corporation, and then the Empire State Development Corporation, employed eminent domain to replace what they deemed to be blighted properties with family-friendly entertainment and office towers. Times Square, Grand Central and the Laws That Build the City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Among Christina Coker's preoccupations are coastal towns on Britain's forgotten edges, battered by economic blight – seaside tourists replaced in bed and breakfast houses by lodgers paid for by social services. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z The state holds an annual peach festival, even though it ceased to be the nation’s largest peach producer, due to a blight, more than a century ago. Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z But what Linton considers art, some in law enforcement consider urban blight. When is graffiti art? L.A. show hones debate 2011-04-25T16:03:39Z I also remember being irked by the E4 logo watermarking that blighted the screen – an underestimated detail of watching a show on DVD is the absence of these irritations. Box Set Club: Six Feet Under 2011-08-16T14:09:07Z But, while it is fashionably easy to suggest that his career was blighted by his political activities, I suspect his talent was intimately related to his radical political convictions. Corin Redgrave obituary 2010-04-06T18:58:00Z To these hard-core comic book fans, the camp sensibility — the show’s scripts were rife with double-entendres and played with the utmost sincerity — was a blight on the superhero’s legacy. ‘Batman,’ the 1960s TV Series, Returns in a Collection 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z During his research Michael realizes they have cast a blight on his life, as they have on the country. Jonathan Coe on What a Carve Up! 2011-03-21T11:15:00Z Malerman balances the novel’s various elements — family drama, road novel, supernatural thriller — with skill and genuine compassion for his characters and their blighted lives. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z "Elysium": On a blighted future Earth, Matt Damon's a have-not battling to reach an orbiting paradise where the rich live in splendor. Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup 2013-01-09T22:46:05Z “Miz Martha Washington” uses its Black actors to expose the blights of the American dream and the hypocrisies of our historical narratives. Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Far from being a renegade action or unlawful act of graffiti, the team was working under the auspices of Beautify, a technology company created last year to facilitate mural paintings on blighted city walls. Murals Send a Message of Hope in Grim Times 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The only blight on Calvin’s happiness is his fear that he has gone crazy, and he tries fruitlessly to wish her out of existence. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z “It is the confluence of madness and urban blight,” he said. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z This isn't entirely off base, and there are corners of this series in which the filmmaker's sweeping ambition to encapsulate as much of Chicago in all its beauty and blight gets the better of him. "City So Real" is the must-watch series about Chicago in all of its separate and unequal glory 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It is the blight man was born for, Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z There was one further workshop, which forms the show’s third act, although to say too much about it would be to blight the surprise. In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Copying the picture tipped him into one the psychotic episodes that blighted his later years. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Ersatz buildings, decrepit interiors and blighted streets tally the costs of urban sprawl while conveying unexpected frissons of color, texture and shape; signs and graffiti provide all kinds of commentary. Art In Review: ZOE STRAUSS: ‘10 Years, a Slideshow’ 2012-07-12T21:25:56Z And almost every aspect of the technical production feeds a holistic vision of a world blighted by its human inhabitants, then and now. Review: In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z This is a Disney production, so everything is bright and shiny and suburban without the blight. 'Alexander's' day isn't so terrible, film isn't so great 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Bauhaus’s progeny produced millions of buildings of unparalleled ugliness, blighting urban environments worldwide. Review | Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looks. But did they make it better? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z These high-maintenance specimens grow indoors in rooms monitored for light, temperature, humidity and various blights which can quickly ruin a million dollars’ worth of plants. Dream catchers, succulents and joints: a visit to an LA cannabis shop 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z First, there's the dim room with its "dusty blight" redolent of desolation and even dereliction. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z Both were precursors to the athleisure that currently graces or blights city streets, depending on your point of view. ThighMasters, Jazzercise, Yoga and Other Chapters in the History of Women and Exercise 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Salad is appealing not only because the food is healthy for us but because it’s healthy for the world — a direct retort to the obviously very bad Styrofoam Filet-o-Fish containers that blighted many customers’ youth. Is Your Salad Habit Good for the Planet? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z A few decades ago, both cities were blighted, tired and crime-ridden. Casinos aren’t the future 2012-06-02T16:00:00Z Tonight's show suffers an acute case of the muffled mic syndrome that blights so many rap gigs, rendering both rhythmic artistry and controversial hate-quote a muddy mush. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – review 2013-07-02T18:29:27Z In the last couple of weeks it has surfaced spectacularly in the worlds of show business and fashion, blighting, if not ending, two major careers. | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z Disaster strikes when Albarn urges the crowd to sing along to Pirate Jet, a sombre album track about environmental blight. Gorillaz at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T00:47:00Z It was a tragic end to a tragic life blighted by mental illness and incarceration in an insane asylum. ‘My family resisted the Nazis’: why director had to film Alone in Berlin 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Underneath the recluse’s backyard shed, the teenager, Charlie, climbs down into a kingdom blighted by a terrible disease. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The song tells of lives blighted by violence and circumstance; Skye Edge was a notorious estate overlooking Sheffield. Richard Hawley – review 2012-10-06T23:05:53Z POTato fungUS: A blight that can ruin a country. Style Invitational Week 1384: Of course there are stupid questions! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, however, the blighted place began to show glimmers of success. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z June 24 Theater Talkback: When Stars Take Over the Tonys Is the celebrity blitzing of Broadway a boon, a blight or both? Opera Orchestra of New York Stages a Comeback 2010-06-24T17:01:00Z Brian Kite's magisterial staging brings intimacy and immediacy to Victor Hugo’s peripatetic plot about Jean Valjean, a saintly fugitive convict whose life has been forever blighted by the theft of a loaf of bread. A masterly 'Les Miserables' at La Mirada Theatre 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z "Folks were complaining about empty lots being a source of crime and blight," Curren said. Central District lot becomes work of art 2011-07-06T05:07:28Z In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell discussed the blight of “dying metaphors” — those well-worn phrases that allow us to mouth off without paying much heed. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z They skirted around the Teutonic-Romantic preoccupations of their teachers and elders Parry, Stanford and Elgar, and kept their distance from the blighted despair of the Celtic twilight movement. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z This is probably down to Southern blight, a soil-borne fungus that attacks the base of plants, so everything above the damage — the entire top growth — withers and dies. Surveying the garden after a soggy summer 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z There’s no doubt about it that lives have been blighted,” he said. Cardinal: Abortion is bigger sin than priest abuse 2013-05-28T20:46:00Z You can understand the temptation, expressed by two of the characters here, to want to blow these blighted specimens of humanity to kingdom come. Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Naipaul was too close to his trapped and blighted characters for the comfort of sentimentality. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Now, peace comes from a place too blighted by human invention to draw anyone near. Going outside is our only escape. But now that’s scary, too. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z A white patch of blight creeps up from the bottom of “Deck, Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel, Menlo Park.” Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Albatross, the first single from Wild Beasts' third album, Smother, sees the band tone down the idiosyncrasies that blighted their debut and enhanced much of its follow-up, Two Dancers. New music: Wild Beasts ? Albatross 2011-04-08T15:28:00Z Gore spent the better part of 90 minutes detailing the pressures of drought, heat, flooding, superstorms, “rain bombs,” invasive insects, fungi and bacterial blight on food producers. ‘We really need to wake up quickly’: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z "The whole idea," he says, "was turn blight into bright." Murals turn blighted L.A. alleys into an outdoor art gallery 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z After the government decreed the area blighted, wrecking balls erased many such hotspots and forced thousands of people from the neighborhood through eminent domain. SFJazz Center opens, bringing swing to West Coast 2013-01-24T12:01:06Z “The big picture is that the neighborhood is blighted,” she added. ‘Catch and kill’ at National Enquirer gives media one last black eye before election 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z What his case suggests is that what blights the lives of those no longer in office may be less the loss of power than the loss of a sense of purpose. In praise of ? V?clav Havel's new career 2010-08-03T22:47:00Z But that is essentially the story with Fan Pier, a former industrial blight on the South Boston waterfront being transformed, albeit slowly, into a hub of fashion, art and dining. 36 Hours: Boston 2010-08-06T05:00:00Z And a part of that has been in this newspaper which used to only write blight stories and show a picture of the decrepit train station. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and – and in short you are for ever floored. Quiz: Debt in literature 2011-08-03T09:57:51Z In a city long known for its crime problem, Loflin Yard is a striking example of increased local efforts to transform blighted areas into buzzy social hot spots. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z It began in the American Tobacco district, an area adjacent to the City Center that was once dominated by a blighted former tobacco factory. Choice Tables: Durham Dining: Pies, Panini and Barbecue 2011-06-24T18:55:00Z Kim's sex tape has not been blighted by sequels, Mr Spielberg – yet still you announce Jurassic Park 4 and Indiana Jones 5 like they're the classiest things in the world. Meet the planet's most powerful star. It's none other than Jennifer Lopez. Yes, really 2012-05-17T19:00:06Z But it’s a blight that’s no longer relegated to the region. ‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z During his trip, Douglass witnessed the fallout of a terrible potato blight that was bringing famine to the land. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z So, the bank walks away, the house becomes worthless, abandoned, a probable site for arson, making all the homes around it lose value, more clichés of urban blight scarring the landscape. Detroit: A city in foreclosure 2013-02-14T21:06:00Z But the latter blighted the father’s diplomatic career, claimed the life of the eldest son and made a hero out of the commander of PT-109. Groomed to Be President 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z "Some of these children come from horrific backgrounds," says Monks, "in an area blighted by insecurity bred of recent immigration." Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z It was in the great regional cities of England that the 1845 Museums Act made its mark, as corporations worked to bring culture to people blighted by the Industrial Revolution. We need to start charging for museums and galleries again 2011-03-06T00:12:32Z Would no one from the blighted orphan world have crossed back? Review: In Its Finale, ‘The Leftovers’ Crosses Beautifully to the Other Side of Grief 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z That is true on a stretch of Farnsworth Street that has been reclaimed by artists and activists, a leafy block in eastern Detroit surrounded by severe blight. Wringing Art Out of Rubble in Detroit 2010-08-03T22:29:00Z Although pockets of the Valley were marginalized as blighted and beleaguered through the last 30 years of the 20th century, they nonetheless nurtured a thriving art scene. 'Valley Vista' at Cal State Northridge takes a stand for Valley art 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The blight of the ash cloud is already worse than the air blight post 9/11, the BBC reports. Smiling in the face of ash 2010-04-18T16:30:00Z Bad weather, pests and blights are all to be expected and can often be taken in stride. For Farmers of Wine Grapes, the Pandemic Sows Doubts 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Hustvedt’s multifaceted novel is a portrait of a creative titan whose career and reputation have seemingly been blighted by the art establishment’s ingrained sexism. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The book is lurid and lyrical, a confession wrapped in an account of the societal blight that afflicted America’s black neighborhoods from the Depression to the civil rights era. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Remove any leaves that show signs of yellowing to halt the spread of blight. Even in summer, reasons to grow basil indoors 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The characters merely angered me with their naivete and their confused ideas about reviving and profiting from blighted neighborhoods in a city deserted by people, business and government. ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’ review: Trouble rebuilding Detroit 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z In other words, as you walk the exhibit you find yourself veering between two reactions: awe at the gorgeousness of many sights depicted, and extreme distress at the man-made blights destroying them. Review: Fragile beauty on display at Burke Museum nature-photo show 2010-08-11T23:33:00Z But at the same time, his right hand had been diagnosed with functional dystonia, a painful muscle condition that has blighted the careers of many musicians. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps they'd like to pop up to Bolton to take in and see how the Depression plus benefit cuts blighted the lives of the working class at the end of the 1920s. What to see 2010-10-22T15:48:00Z Early blight is a common fungal disease that afflicts tomato plants, turning the leaves yellow and black. A historian gets gardening inspiration from his subjects: U.S. presidents 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z We talked about how popular chestnut meal had been with bakers before the great American chestnut tree caught a blight and we ended up with not a single one left. I wanted the real story behind chess pie’s name. But no one wanted to talk about it. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z It must defend itself against the powers of darkness, the force of hatred and the blight of ignorance. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z Before Brooklyn became a hipster haven with pricey real estate and the Bronx became the poster child for urban blight, neighborhood life in those outer boroughs was pretty much the same. Avery Corman writes memoir of Bronx boyhood 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z It crowned a career blighted by injury battles, depression and gutsy near-misses for a national hero who had combined the early years of her track career with a job in the Army. How Dame Kelly Holmes won her toughest race - to be herself, out and proud 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z In the decade since he took office, the city has demolished some 25,000 blighted homes whose rusty debris and incubation of crime drag down neighborhoods. The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z The loss of taste and smell — hallmarks of a coronavirus infection early in the pandemic — became a stubborn blight for many long COVID-19 sufferers, but new research shows that the sensory problems gradually abate. Loss of smell from COVID-19 takes up to three years to return, study finds 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Officials blame immigrants and liberal housing laws, but a Times investigation found the entrenched problems that turned downtown Johannesburg into a blighted tinderbox. Deadly Fire in Africa’s Richest City Exposed a Secret in Plain Sight 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z It has been blighted by conflict and poverty since Myanmar's independence in 1948, fragmented into the fiefdoms of different warlords, drug bosses or ethnic rebels who have been fighting each other and the army. A turning point in Myanmar as army suffers big losses 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z According to local historian and secretary at The Brixton Society, Alan Piper, "planning blight" after the war and the closure of the Bon Marche department store significantly impacted the market's reputation. Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z “I don’t even get a Jury Trial. A blight on the New York State Judicial System,” he wrote on Truth Social. New York governor dismisses Trump’s plea to mediate civil trial 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Next time you feel like littering, think of the bird you may harm and the beauty you are blighting. Climate crisis: ‘Do something for our common home!’ 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Originally set up as self-defense forces for poor neighborhoods blighted by drug gangs, they have now metastasized into criminal outfits operating in multiple different rackets. Rio gangsters torch at least 35 buses after Brazil crime boss killed 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Authorized by law since 1945, redevelopment agencies used a portion of property tax money to partner with developers to encourage development in blighted areas. Mission Inn Museum could lose its home at Riverside's ritzy Mission Inn Hotel & Spa 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The broken finger is another cruel blow for a player whose career has been blighted by injury. Topley out of World Cup with broken finger 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z One was so blighted it was used as a shooting location for the dystopian sci-fi movie “12 Monkeys.” As Coal Plants Shutter, a Chance to Redevelop ‘the Gates of Hell’ 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The smell has blighted Brightlingsea, in Essex, for about a year but the exact cause is not known. Calls for more action on Brightlingsea's mystery stench 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z "I tried to sell it and estate agents laughed at me. It was blighted forever," he said. Man forced to sell home for HS2 has 'lost everything' 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The departure of hungry and exhausted Armenian families this week was blighted by an explosion at a fuel depot that killed at least 170 people. UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenian exodus continues 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z BBC News has been speaking to shops who are blighted by shoplifting - as well as those who are committing crimes. Shoplifter: Police need to stop people like me 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Kiffin is, and always will be, a total blight on USC football, so why make him out to be this knight in shining armor? Letters to Sports: Chargers continue to live up to their legacy 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Zelenskiy became president in May 2019 with a promise to break with the cronyism and corruption that had blighted Ukraine for decades. Graft accusations dog top Zelenskiy aides 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The city still has far fewer office workers downtown and some blocks are plainly blighted, with tents, distressed people and open drug use just around the corner from some of Portland’s most prominent hotels. Portland hotels ‘in crisis’ after another lackluster summer 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z For many Libyans, the collective grief over the more than 11,000 dead has morphed into a rallying cry for national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division. For a divided Libya, disastrous floods have become a rallying cry for unity 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z So far, at least 15 neighborhood councils have come out against Metro’s plan, with many saying the new signs would create visual blight. L.A. planning commission backs plan for 80 digital billboards on Metro sites 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z A representative of the drag group on Wednesday called Mr. Ellis-Gilmore’s arrest “an embarrassment and a blight on our name.” Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence chapter apologizes after member charged with masturbating in a park 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z “Not-in-my-backyard”-style opposition to the plan over a presumed blight on bucolic Swiss mountain vistas has made for some unusual political allies in the Alpine country. A southern Swiss region votes on a plan to fast-track big solar parks on Alpine mountainsides 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z However his transition to the 26.2-mile race was otherwise blighted by injury struggles. Farah set for final race of career at Great North Run 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Rant to those driving too fast that caused the need for this annoying blight throughout our city’s roads. Rant and Rave: Reader has suggestion for lottery system 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z With rainfall in long-term decline, around three-quarters of Mongolia's land is blighted by desertification and drought, and more than 200 small lakes have dried up since 1980. With China on his mind, pope visits tiny Catholic flock in Mongolia 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z “To have anyone associated with us accused of such behavior is an embarrassment and a blight on our name.” Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence chapter apologizes after member charged with masturbating in a park 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Blake was lamenting the rise of the machine-filled factory, too, because he saw the way that it stood to blight communities and immiserate workers. Column: What Stephen King — and nearly everyone else — gets wrong about AI and the Luddites 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z "We simply cannot afford to do nothing - the growth of our city's economy means that we need to urgently solve the problem of congestion that blights our roads." Cambridge congestion charge plans revised after consultation 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Though plastic bags represent a fraction of plastics produced, they are a unique source of blight, according to Mark Murray, the executive director of environmental group Californians Against Waste. Does California have a plastic bag ban or what? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z His death shocked a nation that has largely escaped the decades of drug-gang violence, cartel wars and corruption that has blighted many of its neighbours. Ecuador election: 'I'm wearing a bulletproof vest 24 hours a day' 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z His death has shocked a nation that has largely escaped the decades of drug-gang violence, cartel wars and corruption that has blighted many of its neighbours. Ecuador murder: Fernando Villavicencio's running-mate steps in to contest election 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z "Positive extra funding in the recent Budget will help, but councils still face considerable challenges when trying to get on top of this pothole blight." Increase fuel duty to repair potholes - councils 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Carter, 56, grew up just blocks away from where the cafe now sits in Hunts Point and lived the realities of urban blight. Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there’s pride, still hard times 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z So the data support the idea that, broadly, plastic bag bans in our state have decreased plastic bag blight on our shores since 2010, but that the statewide ban hasn’t made much additional impact. Does California have a plastic bag ban or what? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Beyond the blight on the county treasury and the emotional toll paid by Fischer’s victims, the sheer number of claims and the response to them as they piled up have fomented distrust. As San Diego County deputy leaves jail for sexual assaults, taxpayers pay nearly $10 million to victims 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Arizona started building a freeway to the south — robbing Apache of much of its traffic — and the area began a long slide into blight. This development wants residents to ditch their cars. In Phoenix 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z The AA has said winter damage to main roads is fixed rapidly in the spring, but residential and rural roads remain "blighted by potholes". Increase fuel duty to repair potholes - councils 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s a problem that has not only blighted the landscape, but also raised worries over contamination of one of the region’s largest watersheds. Trash heaps, wild parties and slaughtered animals: Blight invades a beloved L.A. escape 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Langstaff recommended in April that compensation should be expanded to include more people whose lives were blighted by the scandal, such as parents who lost their children. UK prime minister urged to speed up compensation for infected blood scandal victims 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The inquiry’s chairman, retired judge Brian Langstaff, recommended in April that compensation should be expanded to include more people whose lives were blighted by the scandal, such as parents who lost their children. UK prime minister urged to speed up compensation for infected blood scandal victims 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Ms Walker told the BBC the infections that Steven had, along with the stigma associated with them, "absolutely blighted the whole of his life". Infected Blood Inquiry: Rishi Sunak to give evidence 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The government has struggled to contain the violence which has blighted the prisons and the country as a whole. Ecuador jails: Inmates hold dozens of guards hostage 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z It proved to be the only blight on England's day. Astonishing Crawley century stuns Australia 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The city now boasts balanced budgets, improved services and a blight reduction effort that has led to the demolition of more than 24,000 vacant houses. The architect of Detroit’s bankruptcy filing 10 years ago says it was the best fix for a broken city 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The industry has been blighted by "hubris", argues Chris Davies, chief executive and founder of Harvest London, which plans to open a new vertical farm in Beddington next year. Lean times hit the vertical farming business 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Watching my child being poorly for all those years and eventually dying has been a blight on my life. Infected Blood Inquiry: Rishi Sunak to give evidence 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z A U.S. securities trading blunder that triggered a $361 million regulatory penalty and blighted recent earnings remains a drag on shareholder confidence too. Exclusive: Barclays eyes smaller units for growth in strategic review, risks investor ire 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z But many others, especially in larger towns or cities, are still blighted by empty department stores and shuttered outposts of national brands. How to Revive a Dying Main Street? One U.K. Landlord Offered Free Rent. 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s, however, local and federal officials declared those homes a blight, razing and burning them while the Agua Caliente watched helplessly from the sidelines. Reparations are proposed for Black Californians. What about Indigenous people? 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z However, the paramilitary forces have also tightened their command over Darfur, a region blighted by decades of genocidal violence. Sudanese City Becomes Center of ‘New Phase’ of War 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z More than 40,000 people joined an online queue, with none of the major problems that blighted Swift's US sale. Taylor Swift: Fans snap up first available tickets for Eras UK tour dates 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Her doctor says she is dying, a new victim of an acute food shortage in a region blighted by two years of war and struggling with drought. Hunger haunts Ethiopia's Tigray region after years of war 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z In such blighted areas as the Tenderloin and Skid Row, he wrote, the court should not be “eager to throw caution to the wind and to embrace judicial adventurism.” 9th Circuit conservatives blast homelessness ruling, say issue is 'paralyzing' U.S. West 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z "We also frequently find that cannabis production is just one aspect of their criminal operations and that they are complicit in wider offending which blights our communities." Police seize £130m worth of cannabis in UK-wide crackdown 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z James Wilsdon, a professor of science policy at University College London, told BBC News what while this was "wonderful news" the uncertainty over the past three years had "blighted" UK-EU scientific collaboration. Horizon research deal with EU awaits Sunak's signature 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The route mostly shuns Third Avenue, parts of which are blighted by plywood-covered storefronts and drug smoking on the sidewalks. Getting around Seattle during All-Star Week: bus, train, car, boat and more 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Amine, now 19, grew up here on the Frais-Vallon estate, a vast and deprived social housing project in the north of the city, which is blighted by gang and drug-related violence. France riots: 'For the politicians we are nothing' 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Born after the fall of the Soviet Union, she grew up in a Russia blighted by organised crime and watched police dramas on TV, wanting to "fight evil like they did." Insight: Young Russian lawyers step up to defend anti-war protesters 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z “Hard Rock and Ocean each took on the unenviable task of rehabilitating shuttered casinos that sat as a blight on the northern end of the Atlantic City Boardwalk,” Bokunewicz said. Opened amid uncertainty, Atlantic City’s 2 newest casinos near top of the market 5 years later 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The volume of oil spilled has not been determined, but activists have published images of polluted farmland, water surfaces blighted by oil sheens and dead fish mired in sticky crude. Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Yard signs “would give a cluttered look — visual blight,” she said in testimony at the U.S. Margaret Gilleo, 84, Dies; Made a Yard Sign a Free-Speech Beacon 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z A: When the lower leaves of a tomato plant are yellowing around the edges with scattered brown spots, this is likely caused by early blight, a fungal disease. Clearing weeds before planting a ground cover, and tomato questions 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z |
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