Word: tenementation
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...ride to Emerson, approximately two miles from her Back Bay apartment. But on November 9, Reich hitchhiked alone, and her roommate never saw her again. Four days later, Reich's body was found strangled and stabbed in a closet that had been nailed shut in an abandoned Roxbury tenement...
...attention? Warner needs to clarify his character, if for no other reason that to draw our attention away from trying to figure out whether the back wall of the set is a bad paint job by the crew or an imitation of a bad paint job by the tenement custodian...
...promise are waiting there. They want to go back to the U.S.S.R., but have been told to wait for official approval of their re-entry visas. Some have been waiting in Vienna for 18 months; the most recent arrivals have been there for five. They huddle in a miserable tenement in Vienna's Malzgasse and grow increasingly desperate. Says Rachel Ostrovskaya, a dressmaker from Odessa: "We all make mistakes for sure, but now we want to go back home...
TALL, black and built like a wrestler, Ronnie grew up in a Harlem tenement with 15 brothers and sisters, sometimes sleeping two and three to a bed. Now 21, he has been mugging for a living since the age of 15. "It just boiled down to the fact that I didn't have the things I needed-shoes, clothes, food," he explains. "So I either had to go to work or get out in the streets. Work was impossible-I was too young. Besides, mugging was like a game at first. The object was to be faster than...
When Lesser and Spearmint have a showdown, with hatchet and saber respectively, the abandoned tenement is transformed into a hallucination of a jungle battleground. The realistic props that Malamud has so expertly designed are yanked away, and the two writers assume the proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...