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...recent months, however, the Chelsea has also become an occasional hangout for a seedier brand of clientele -prostitutes, pimps and gamblers-and last week their high jinks snared some surprised Chelsea guests in an ugly rape-and-robbery incident. A third-floor room was serving as an all-night gambling den, with sex available as an added lure. At least 13 men and women, some of them registered guests, made their way to room 330 for the night's gambol. Around 7 a.m. Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole...
Aint is a jumbled-up, quasi-Brechtian Harlem re-do of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Manhattan has grown seedier, in or out of Harlem, since Rice wrote. The people talk tougher now, and are more frantic, more terribly frustrated...
...according to Harvard ticket manager Gordon Page, only about 50 students will risk their wallets to make the long trek to one of Boston's seedier parts to witness the mismatch...
...amidst our intolerable political problems, he was writing about moonships and skin-head technicians. Mailer said because they interested him. It was not a popular answer, he had side-stepped a political question with a non-political answer. But the appropriate literary response was not to become a seedier Vonnegut. Questions of the political justifications of art, particularly in a highly politicized time, become the only questions, and writers are left stranded between their literary impulses and political sympathies...
Relatively Closed Town. Hatcher, 35, the mayor of a smaller, seedier and far less diversified city (65% of the work force is employed by U.S. Steel), was able to tap foundations as weU as the Federal Government. When he threatened to re-evaluate U.S. Steel property, the results were immediate. The company started building middle-income houses, recently gave the city land for a park and donated some funds. Altogether, Gary has received more than $30 million in federal and private grants-more than in its entire 62-year history...