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...Joseph K, for someone authorized to cope. And naturally enough, this modern dilemma reaches an apogee of sorts in New York, the world's most modern city. There, the tenant who pays some $250 for his apartment is likely to find the price does not include a kindly landlord or even one who can be tracked down; faced with a leak that can't be stopped, and no one but his wife who cares, he must plunge into the morass of building regulations...
...Hudds' haven cracks slightly when Mr. Kidd, their senile landlord, half-remembers that their apartment used to be his bedroom. Then a man and his wife looking for lodging threaten to rent the Hudds' room; and a blind Negro who had been living in the cellar asks Mrs. Hudd to come back to a mysterious unsavory past, to her home. Like The Dumbwaiter, the play ends with a grotesque shock...
...Washington apartment was unable to cope with the stove, and built a cooking fire on the floor. The flames were extinguished before the kitchen caught fire, but when the Africans moved, they refused to pay for the damage that had been done. They invoked diplomatic immunity when the landlord threatened...
Uncle Joe. Since Mrs. Morris' find was made above ground on private property, the Government does not challenge her claim. But there is no shortage of disputants. Her landlord, Thomas Locascio, maintains that he owns the money, since it went with the $7,000, five-room frame house when he bought it from Nunzio Calcagno in 1962. Calcagno, who now lives in California, has filed a suit claiming that the cash belongs to him; tucked among the bills were envelopes bearing the name of his dead uncle Joseph. Arguing that the money was only misplaced, not lost, Calcagno said...
...lives-quietly-in a substantially soundproof, 50-year-old brownstone and seems to feel that things have come to a pretty pass when a man can't snore the night away in his own bed without being afraid of waking the neighbors, suggested that both consult their landlord about what might be done to dampen the high fidelity of the Sheir snoring, and that everybody show up in court again next month...