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...movies of the 30's, and all these investigations of our origins and terrible flaws, the built-in problems of the way things work in America is a little like scouring the plumbing in your own home...It's hard for some of us to get down in the cellar. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. That's a very real thing, the way that book sort of smells, it's the plumbing under the homes, I remember, this stink arising from under the house itself. Throughout the book he smells bad things...
Flip's mother abandoned the family when Flip was still a youngster, and his father floated from place to place in search of low rents. At one point he moved his brood into a coalbin cellar. "We'd steal buns from the A & P, milk, anything to keep alive," recalls Flip's brother Lemuel, a carpenter in Jersey City. "I used to steal Christmas trees so we'd have one on Christmas." In those days Flip was a quick, thin child with a runny nose and a big appetite; his brothers and sisters called...
What should be the best basketball team ever to play at Harvard came back from Philadelphia Saturday night with a pair of weekend losses at Princeton and Pennsylvania, a 6-7 record, and undisputed possession of the Ivy League cellar. If you are unable to figure out what the hell is going on, you're not alone in your confusion...
...Cellar. Life is almost as nerve-racking for the 20 inhabitants of 125-acre Eiskeller, a farm community on the northwest tip of the city. Connected to West Berlin by a one-lane, 800-meter road, Eiskeller (Ice Cellar) belongs to the Spandau district in the British sector. The shoulderless roadway is so narrow that no gas or electric lines can be installed: though it is the coldest part of the city, petroleum for both light and heat must be trucked in. Nonresidents must travel the dirt road under British escort, because Vopos lurk just off the roadway in case...
...Hudson near by. Eleanor's Uncle Vallie, only 25, was a mean, unpredictable drunk who, among other things, took potshots at people walking on the grounds. Unsteady of aim, he always missed, but such pastimes made daily life harrowing. Eleanor befriended the laundress and spent hours in the cellar cranking the wringer and learning how to iron...