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...landlady, a blowzy, bosomy redhead named Guinevere, who rambles on about past loves and lovers like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...
Small World. In New York City, Samuel Grove, 26, discovered to his chagrin that the Harlem poolroom operator to whom he tried to sell two suitcasefuls of clothing was the tenant of the Bronx apartment from which he had stolen the clothing several hours before...
Volume Control. In The Hague, when an upstairs tenant refused to turn down his radio, a downstairs tenant chopped a hole through the ceiling, reached through and tried to club the man above with a stilt...
...born in 1759, in an Ayrshire clay cottage built by his tenant-farming father. Within a week, the roof blew in on little Rab (no one ever called him "Bobbie"). He was too young to interpret the omen, but father Burns had a flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
...Bell report called for tax relation, enforcement of a minimum wage law, and reapportionment of crop shares for tenant farmers...