1.   By the end of the film, he is a frightened, ravaged shell of his former self, living in a squalid shack with a harridan.

2.   While the Filipino middle class has thrived, poverty is raging in Manila and the jungle islands, where lush golf courses sit near squalid tin shacks.

3.   Its less picturesque face of slums and rows of squalid shacks along riverbanks is ever annoying to city officials -- and ever fascinating to artists.

4.   Some live in squalid shacks.