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...stray cattle but not, alas, bull snakes (Brown killed three of them earlier this year). At Lennep, science lab may be watching Alka-Seltzer tablets dissolve at varying speeds in glasses of cold, warm and hot water. Socially, too, youngsters nurtured in the gentle intimacy of a one roomer may tend at first to be loners, and lonely, when tossed into a big high school...
...dirty diapers and dirtier sinks. The characters are like seedy relatives whom one loathes and loves-caustic embittered mom, silent spine-shattered dad, sluttish frustrated daughter. Into their midst comes Len (James Woods) the perennial innocent, scarily looking for sex at the beginning, resignedly settling in as a paying roomer...
Twenty-six hours later, two patrolmen answered a call from a sleazy North Side hotel reporting that a Puerto Rican prostitute had told the manager: "There's a man up there with a gun." The roomer identified himself as Richard Speck, a name that did not yet ring a bell with the officers, though they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer...
...above the economics of it is the fun. Those areas under the stairs that are so fine for hiding, the odd, unexpected rooms, the high ceilings-the wasted space, in short, which is so far from wasted. Says a Boston realtor who lives in a 74-year-old 15-roomer himself: "Of course, the basic appeal is a lot more room for less money. But beyond that-they're nicer, they're warmer, they're grander. You have the feeling that you're living in a real house...
...mount the scope but to sight the weapon in for him (cost: $6). Marina wanted Oswald to get rid of the weapon, but he refused. He also got furious because Marina tried to telephone him at his Dallas rooming house; she had been told that there was no roomer there by the name of Lee H. Oswald, and she was puzzled. He did not try to explain why he was using a phony name...