Word: tenementation
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...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid; with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
...that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
...only contact with luxury is her night job as a floor polisher in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. She gets home from work in the morning in time to send the eldest of her nine children off to school, and to greet husband James as he leaves their tenement flat for his job on a city garbage truck...
Much of the film is a hair-raising chase by night which ends up in a fire-gutted tenement. As the camera stalks hunter & hunted about the shadowy ruins, the suspense is drawn out to a fine edge. An intelligent sound track, all ears, brings it to a razor sharpness. When Bobby is finally cornered on a giant rafter, overhanging the gaping cellar, the rotted wood starts giving way. What follows is a breathless, well-executed collaboration between lens and microphone...