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Sartorius (Robert J. Bouffier) is the widower in question, and he has built his house on the profits of being a slum landlord and renting out crumbling tenement flats to the poor. As his name suggests, his social position is entirely exteriorized: it is in his clothes, his house, his manners, but he is still conscious of his working class origins. This makes it even more striking that he should say: "When people are very poor, you cannot help them, however much you may sympathize with them...
...like frame created by Set Designer Tom Gluck is similarly well-suited to this type of theater. Also, the set contributes to our notion that the characters are trapped in a tenement life...
...Dresden last April, neo-Nazis threw a Mozambican to his death from a moving streetcar. In May they invaded a tenement in Wittenberg, forcing two Namibians off a fourth-floor balcony and critically injuring them. Two weeks ago, 50 skinheads stormed a center for asylum seekers from the Third World, smashing windows and pummeling residents. No one with a dark skin, police officials say, can feel safe on the streets of eastern Berlin...
...imagine the pain and horror of Daniel Scott's last hours. The seven-month-old baby was found by police lying in a pool of blood next to his crib in a Bronx tenement. His mother, off on a six-day crack binge, had left him in the care of his father, who abandoned the child in his unlocked apartment without so much as a bottle of water. Emaciated, filthy, desperate, the infant had apparently hoisted himself out of the crib and tumbled onto the wood floor before finally dying of starvation and dehydration. Both parents -- Jane Scott...
...private landlords sometimes even + approach foreigners at Budapest railway stations, offering rooms. While prices are generally low in Western terms -- from $10 to $30 a night -- standards vary. A visitor may end up in a turn-of-the-century house with high ceilings or a grubby room in a tenement block. Since the booking system remains fairly rigid, visitors should be flexible. In East Germany changing from an expensive room overlooking a busy railway station to a cheaper one next to a quiet courtyard can prove to be impossible. Rules are still rules, and a voucher is for what...