Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint about rats in the neighborhood led William Gentry, a Baltimore health-department inspector, from house to house on Baltimore's Reisterstown Road until he came to the home of one Aaron D. Frank. One quick look showed the Frank house to be in "an extreme state of decay," and disclosed-as health-department officialese put it-a backyard pile of "rodent feces mixed with straw and trash and debris to approximately half a ton." But Aaron Frank refused to let the inspector in the house without a warrant. After Inspector Gentry was kept out a second time, Householder...
Skillfully edited film clips (all shot by NBCameramen) took the TV audience into the dangerous neighborhood of the East Berlin anti-Red riots of 1953, called back the high, droning traffic of the airlift of 1948-49. Then there were the refugees of today, a steady, hopeful stream, explaining their flight on their first afternoon of freedom. And there was Willy Brandt, the mayor, spelling out his startling theory that there may have been too many refugees, that Moscow might flood East Germany with Russians and Poles: this in .turn would make it harder than ever to achieve a free...
...like Sawyer, young Duluoz is a fair-weather rebel, and he generally rambles home in time for dinner. The book, some of its pages all but yellowed with nostalgia, is an elegy to the warm, safe smells of a tenement kitchen and the dark mysteries of a city neighborhood...
With her last strength she turns to look at a photograph of her daughter. Smiling peacefully, she dies. The funeral takes place in a Hollywood reconstruction of the little old neighborhood Baptist church -an edifice that looks suspiciously like Westminster Abbey on Coronation...
Gabin takes the case, wins it at some risk to his professional standing, calls to collect his fee. He calls again. He sets the girl up in a pleasant apartment, then moves her into an elegant establishment in a more fashionable neighborhood. His wife (Edwige Feuillère) discreetly remonstrates; he brushes her off. The twippet cheats on him all the time; he overlooks it. When she announces that she is pregnant, he happily makes preparations to leave home, move in with his petite amie. The end is sudden, violent and squalid...