Word: tenementation
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...affirm the right to life. Every woman who dies horribly and unnecessarily on the floor of a tenement has been denied her right to life. Every woman who loses a job, who must leave school, who is ostracized by family and friends for bearing a child she did not choose to have is being denied her right to life with dignity. (This includes the victim of rape as well as the naive sixteen year old and the mother already struggling to support five children...
Zero Mostel, who grew up in a small, overcrowded tenement apartment, recalls that "the alliance gave me a new life-I had never seen such big rooms before...
...exits. Not knowing which of the 18 apartments contains the phone-and perhaps Velez-Yuknes dials the number and mumbles to a man who answers, "I was asked to call this number-the cops are coming." Seconds later, a man rushes out of the front door of the tenement. He sees the cops, but an officer beats him to the homemade grenade he is carrying and also snatches his pistol, a .38 revolver. He is Velez-with his once bushy Afro shaved. The police also arrest another man, wanted in the bank robberies. Four hours later, in Brooklyn, they find...
...began seven years ago when the Longmuir brothers, Bass Guitarist Alan, then 19, and Drummer Derek, then 16, started a rock group called the Saxons. They rehearsed in their parents' tenement apartment. "They had the most patched-up bunch of electronic junk I'd ever seen," says Tam Paton, their manager. They also had, he recalls, "a freshness and an eagerness to please that were very appealing." A perhaps marketable, boy-next-door look, in other words...
...fantasy of escape into aristocratic elegance which comprises the central theme of the film, is that this is precisely the sort of ambivalent and delusory self-consciousness we might expect a woman in her situation to have: the easiest exit from the drudgery and stark misery of factory and tenement is assimilation into the elite through physical beauty and seductive charm, as the heroines of mass culture from Cinderella to Marilyn Monroe have discovered. Had De Sica treated the contradictions in Clara's self-awareness with the sardonic tone whose subtle pinpricks enabled Flaubert to deflate Madame Bovary's romantic...