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...there did not cluster around him but came one by one to chat with Reagan, who talked of the rundown condition in which he had found the White House, of his adjustments to life in the mansion. It was unspectacular and disarming. The President left as quietly as he came...
...York City, the cold has continued almost unabated since a sub-zero Christmas Day, and January temperatures have averaged 19.7°. Some stingy and cold-hearted "coldlords" were giving up trying to provide heat in rundown tenements, and a few had let boilers slip into disrepair-or even intentionally damaged them. Said City Heat Inspector Theodore Klopsis: "There is plenty of heating oil, but some landlords are deliberately turning off their boilers...
...Trinhs are living in a four-room apartment in a huge, gloomy, rundown building off Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn...
Author Barry Hannah, 38, is also a connoisseur of the rundown, the tacky, the disreputable. Observes one wastrel: "My pappy's from Mississippi. He ain't worth nothing, but there he is." Pretty much the same thing can be said about Ray himself. Hannah is talented enough to make his hero's uninhibited meanness sympathetic and humorous. Ray says things that most people only think, at low moments: "I get tired of people. All of them driving around in their cars, eating, having to be." But unrelieved rascality can grow boring, and this short novel ends...
...life role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching...