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...housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski's Stairway has been scraped off like a scab by the welfare state, but in this novel its aroma of gamy decay still hangs heavy on the Pittsburgh...
...news of Barnes's violent end reached him, Henri Marceau, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, had an awed comment: "How natural." Long before his death, Albert Barnes's fabulous collection of French and American modern art, his quarrels and correspondence (frequently unprintable), his dung-heap humor and mercurial temper had made him a legend. The son of a poverty-stricken Civil War veteran, he grew up in the verminous, squatter slums of Philadelphia, with a burning determination to get rich, and then to thumb his nose at the world. He did just that-and quickly...
...takes a heap o' talkin' to make a national political convention, and the talkiest jobs of all are permanent chairman and keynote speaker. Last week the Democratic National Committee tapped a Southern moderate and a Western Boy Senator for the posts...
...after working four hours without food, Kou went to stand in line at the cook shack for his twice-a-day bowl of rice. Wong was lying in a heap on the ground, moaning. The section foreman was shouting "Get up!" and punctuating each command with a kick in the belly. Wong tried to rise but could not. On his field telephone, the foreman summoned seven members of Mao's militia-big, well-fed northern men chosen because their ignorance of the Kwangtung dialect isolates them from the peasants they bully...
...Heap o' Lovin'. In Los Angeles, Frank Sherman, 320 Ibs., and his wife Bernice, 250 lbs.. were forbidden by superior court to adopt a child until they reduce...