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Nether sections of Avenue B provide the Boschian landscape of Hell. They swarm with dreadful objects: flaking $65 walk-ups and urine-stained corridors, a cat skinned live in the alley, bums and glue-sniffing Puerto Rican delinquents, burst trash bags and rusty fire escapes. All these things, lit by the glare of burning cars and the flash of pot or amphetamine, are the backdrop to one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Donald Newlove clearly...
...dark and evil world." He ordered the state to reform Cummins by the fall of 1971 or face an order to close the place. But the evil world persists. With no pay, Cummins prisoners survive by selling their blood or bodies. To blot out the place, they sniff glue and gobble smuggled pills. Some mornings, 200 men are too stoned to work. Since gambling is pervasive, loan sharks top the prison pecking order. They charge 50¢ per dollar a week and swiftly punish defaulters. In a single month last summer, Cummins recorded 19 stabbings, assaults and attempted rapes. The worst...
...craft, and his murals were the common man's answer to the costly, imported French wallpapers that adorned fashionable American homes. Characteristically, Porter shared the secret of his paint-mixing techniques with the public by publishing instructions and recipe booklets: "Dissolve half a pound of glue in a gallon of water, and with this sizing mix whatever colors may be required for the work." Foliage could be stippled on with corks and sponges; bark was suggested by "giving a tremulous motion to the brush...
...quiet moments she rocks herself with a natural sea-born rhythm. But when Mandy dances, it is explosive, "closer to Nijinsky or Zorba the Greek than to Fred Astaire." Her favorite toys are paper cutouts of golliwogs and Draculas and model airplanes that West assembles with her. The glue goes to their heads...
...many street Christians, Hoyt came to his vocation by a circuitous route. Born a Roman Catholic, he was once an altar boy. His well-to-do parents were divorced when he was young, and he and a brother were sent to separate boys' homes. He began to sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian of the Radha...