Word: landlordly
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Tenants of a Windsor Street building and representatives of the Cambridge Tenants' Union said yesterday that a city landlord unfairly increased the building's rent while neglecting maintenance...
...council will send a copy of the welcome toboth the future tenant and his landlord. Only acopy of the request for new housing arrangementswill be sent to Harvard Real Estate...
...Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who come to the U.S. at the end of the 19th century and come of age in the process. He's Joseph, a tenant farmer whose family is driven off its picturesque corner of the Ould Sod by the cruel agents of an absentee landlord. She's Shannon, the landlord's daughter, who falls in love with Joseph at first sight, even though he turns up on her father's estate, ancient rifle in hand, to take vengeance...
...stranded in Calcutta, robbed of his money and passport, where he accidentally encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story unravels as Max begins to help out at a free clinic in the slum that Hazari lives in. He starts out saying, "I hate sick people," but ends up finding a part of himself in them...
...horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers and the landlord's draconian son, Ashok. He terrorizes the villagers, and wreaks havoc in their impoverished and already miserable lives...