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...electric stair-climbing cart. The "Stair Cat" was introduced by General Electric for moving appliances and heavy equipment, hefts a 500-lb. load up or down stairs at the rate of 18 ft. per min., automatically brakes when the motor turns...
Playwright Inge's intention, put over-simply, was to show that each soul has its dark places, and that people can, with love, help each other past these stair tops. Actor Preston just does not behave like a man afraid of the dark. He roars about, spending energy as if he could plow a field without a horse. The viewer knows that Preston will get another job, and can only grin when the frustrated fellow complains that his wife (Dorothy McGuire) treats him "like change from a nickel" and thunders out of the house vowing that...
...cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems to change its shape with the movement of the sun. In the Four Seasons Restaurant-as hedonistic as a Caesar's court-light ripples up and down aluminum loop window shades, plays upon the slender rods of the stair rails. Johnson calls his 1957 Boisson-nas house "my first non-Miesian house." Gone is the "flowing space" that made one room run into another: "Here you go from room to room with doors that close." While the International Stylists tried to make everything as light as possible, Johnson...
...novel's central character is Ike-o Hartwell, who was born in a toilet in a Pittsburgh slum called Sobaski's Stair way. He grew up amid the neon glow of pawn shops and poolrooms on Mechanic Avenue, where the purple nights resounded to the clank and clatter of the street cars, the prancing polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young...
Through the mail slot, a small orphaned girl watches the murder. The sailor hides the pistol in the stair well and hides himself. The little girl reaches for the gun, and their eyes meet. She grabs it and runs away...