Word: tenementation
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" focuses on nine families living an impoverished existence in a predominantly Negro slum neighborhood isolated from mainstream Chicago. Repeat...
...drab parking lot enclosed by scabby brick walls. Artist Allan D'Arcangelo, 37, had a different idea. Seized like many another artist these days with the urge to Paint Big, D'Arcangelo grasped at the opportunity offered by a landlord who owns a five-story tenement next to a parking lot in Manhattan's East Village. The landlord agreed to turn over the side of his building to be used for a mural, put up the price of the paints and the use of a professional scaffolder (total...
Beating the Deadline. The test was made on a dilapidated five-story tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It was largely occupied by relief families and brought rents of only $42 to $72. Early one morning, the families were moved into an inexpensive nearby hotel. At 10 a.m., the whistle blew and 60 wreckers rushed into the building, began the job of stripping down the interior. Painters raced about slapping on fresh coats of color over the scratched, graffiti-scarred hallways. Laborers hurried to load heaps of rubble into waiting dump trucks. Their progress was relayed by three...
...with a number of large flats, all but two of them reasonably realistic. The remaining two, used in every act, are unfortunate red concoctions resembling giant Jackson Pollack paintings; they seriously throw off the basic realism of both play and production. Also intruding on the believability of a Dublin tenement are strange hairy things which hang without visible purpose from the proscenium...
...part the set is responsible for the show's one-note blocking. Virtually every scene has a group of actors who stand stage left, another stage right, and occasional contact between the two stage center. Only in the third act, outside the tenement, is this left-right structure alternated with a freer, and visually much more pleasing (not to mention convincing) movement...