Word: tenementation
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...been edited more rigorously and directed more artfully instead of being produced on the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink principle of comedy. Like its many raucous predecessors, Blazing Saddles is a thing of bits and bits-some good, some awful-pinned to a story line that sags like a tenement clothesline. The movie tends to improve in the retelling, as memory edits out ineptitudes, the better to dwell on moments of glory...
...professionals who are attracted by Cambridge's youth-oriented atmosphere but who leave the area after a year or two. Across the river in Boston, Charles River Park houses these same young transients in an area that until a decade ago was the West End, a stable, predominantly Italian tenement neighborhood...
Born in a Newark tenement, Rodino remains a resident of the same Italian-American community he has represented in Congress since 1948. He has never faced a serious challenge to his seat in New Jersey's Tenth District, and has successfully outclassed growing opposition from his district's black residents, who outnumber the whites. Rodino has been able to win by consistently wide margins because he stays close to his bedrock Italian-American constituency and his liberal voting record makes him attractive to black voters. He has also persistently and successfully refuted charges linking him to his state...
...warmth, along the book shelves and above the desk, summon for me a wealth of English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead their hungry, hot and agonizing lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that all of his labors, dreams and hours are contrived, exacted...
...novelty derives not from originality of insight but from the fact that virtually the whole movie is a cartoon. Animation has seldom been used to express purely personal experience. Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt...