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...peace, rent control is also a means of trying to assure some sort of "fair profit" to real estate interests, as well as "social peace" for the political system itself. When the shortage of decent housing gets to a certain point, rent increases and evictions cause tenants to form tenant unions and fight evictions by force. The rent control process channels this struggle into hearings where the tenants' numbers become less important, and where the landlords' access to legal and economic expertise becomes more important...
These strategies involved exhorting, wheedling or shaming readers into identifying with the plight of the journalists' subjects--the tenant farmers and migrant workers, the victims of the Spanish Civil War. Too often, though, documentary journalists concentrated more on their own responses than on the experience or the social predicament of the people whom they photographed and described. At Stott points out, there was something spurious about Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of smiling sharecroppers that seemed to shout at me, I'm so poor. I don't know how wretched I really...
...mayor of New York eight years ago, 33,000 transit workers walked off their jobs and brought the city dangerously close to paralysis. Lindsay's successor, 67-year-old Abraham Beame, the city's first Jewish mayor, has faced no comparable calamities since becoming the new tenant in Gracie Mansion. But his opening weeks have not been as smooth as cream cheese either. Having based his political reputation on a decades-long record of personal integrity, Beame pledged during his campaign "to make our administration a model of honest government." Nonetheless, he has been singularly unlucky in choosing...
Josie's father Phil' (Handel's) is a bantam rooster of a Connecticut pig farmer with a tongue that spits black Irish bile at his Yankee neighbors. Phil is Tyrone's tenant, and he mistakenly fears that the scapegrace James intends to sell the farm. He baits a sex trap. Josie and James will be found in bed together. James will do the right thing and marry her. She will inherit the farm...
...customers returning to a North Side Chicago shoe-repair shop for new heels or a shine are confronted by a discreetly blackened window and an avocado green door-firmly latched. The new tenant, Artist Ron Rolfe, is not interested in their patronage. All he wants is the privacy of home in his converted storefront...