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...three-story house stands on the corner of Spring and Mott streets in Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox...
...last week) held that federal courts "ought not to enter this political thicket." This ruling, wrote Justice Tom Clark in concurring with the majority last week, has "served as a Mother Hubbard to most of the subsequent cases." By its latest decision, the Supreme Court has merely opened the cupboard door. It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution requiring "equal protection of the laws." In his dissent, Justice Frankfurter, who was joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan, urged "complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements." Wrote Frankfurter: "There...
...limpet-like to the ducts of the furnace-channel A to the hot-air duct, channel B to the cold-air return. Thus wherever the heat flows, music is wafted into every room as sepulchrally as the voice of Marley's ghost; the soprano trills from atop the cupboard, the tenor sings from under the bed. Price...
...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be taken from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / The crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead...
...There was an old lady who lived in a cupboard...