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...factory workers. With a friendly, lopsided grin, he says in passable Russian, "Well, I'm just a simple worker." He switches to English and adds through a Soviet interpreter, "I'm ashamed to say it about my country, but in New York there are 60,000 people without a roof over their heads...
Well, not exactly. Mauri never spent a night on the street. Following his eviction, he was immediately moved into a subsidized apartment in Manhattan. Nor, perhaps, was that the only roof over his head. He appears to have had access to a rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan's Columbus Avenue, a thoroughfare that has become a yuppie mecca. Mauri has claimed that the apartment belongs to his estranged wife, but neighbors say he has also lived there for at least ten years...
...passing from grand to aedicular scale and back again, Palazzo Grassi is an excellent place to look at art. The show has art and a good deal else, including such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging from the cortile roof, and a vintage Bugatti by the canal entrance, to remind one of Marinetti's belligerent and much quoted dictum that "a roaring motorcar that seems to run ( on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...
Minor renovations due to start this week will include replacing roof slates broken by snowfalls, polishing the wood and brass fixtures and "high dusting," that is, professional cleaning and oiling the walls up to a height of 32 feet, said HRE building manager Bob Hart...
Come next spring, major exterior renovations will begin, potentially followed by interior renovations, said Sally Zeckhauser, president of HRE. The exterior renovations include repairing the roof, completely cleaning the sandstone and brick walls, and repairing the stained-glass, she said...