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Only in 1964 did the machine falter. The county joined LBJ's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater. Nether Providence, a township just south of Media, did not join the festivities. Goldwater won big there, as did Nixon in 1960, 1968, and 1972. The machine in Nether Providence clicked, whirred, and continued to hum, smoothly functioning as it is today...
...seven floors, the number of crimes dropped to 42 per thousand, while in three-story walk-ups, the figure was only 31. The most hazardous living quarters were tall buildings with "double-loaded corridors" (apartments on both sides of the hall). In these buildings the corridors are "a nether world of crime and fear" where it is difficult to distinguish residents from strangers. The only "defensible space" is the apartment itself. In walk-ups, however, hallways are in effect part of people's homes, and as a result, "defensible space is extended...
...have never seen a Fellini movie. The images spill in torrents from the screen; the air of a carnival turning into a bacchanal is everywhere. So, alas, is the sense of déjà vu. Fellini has taken us all on this guided tour of his tumid nether world too many times before...
...details-women carrying soup in heavy barrels, prisoners being mustered for work, men searching for lice, sick call, scenes in a mess hall-until the whole experience seems so matter of factly part of life that it cannot be protectively blocked out of the mind as some sort of nether worldly nightmare...
...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...