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...piled high with roof gardens that give shade to some very rich and beautiful people. The cost of rental apartments in Manhattan, if one can be found, has risen preposterously since 1975, which means in short that a two-bedroom pad for $1,500 a month is a steal. Or would you rather buy? The number of cooperative apartments resold in 1976 was 1,026, at an average price of $11,380 per room. In 1979 the number of resales was down to 845, and the average price per room up to $34,481. Only the arrogance of realtors...
...Greenwich Village-a one-bedroom apartment near Washington Square Park. The walls are decorated with Japanese prints, a "Koch for Congress" poster and a David Levine caricature of Hizzoner. Koch has had the rent-controlled apartment since the earlier '60s and now pays only $257 a month, a steal by any New York standards...
...blow Ramos' brains out because he had thrown a snowball. "By then," he says, "I knew that if you're no good in school or in sports, there's nothing left to do around here but pimp, hustle dope, act in porno movies and, yeah, steal. Everybody's gotta live...
When the huge, almost grotesquely muscular men file into the room behind the stage of Olympiisky Stadium, they cannot help but steal a glance at the closed curtains of cubicle No. 17. There, in the corner of the vast hall, Alexeyev rests, stretched out on a bed, all 6 ft. 3 in. and 328 Ibs. of him. Sultan Rakhmanov, 30, Alexeyev's former protege and now his chief Soviet rival, works the room, shaking hands and greeting competitors, flashing a smile of angelic sweetness incongruous on his large frame (6 ft. 1 in., 365 Ibs.). He is wearing...
...abuse of women in Soviet prisons to the unhygienic conditions in maternity hospitals and abortion clinics. One typical article described how working mothers are obliged to leave their small children at state day care centers that are run by staff members who often water their charges' milk and steal much of their food...