Word: tenement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must be plugged as the nation tries to keep warm are in the structure of the society itself. The poor and the old living on fixed incomes can muster no defense against rising heating bills. Stella Falco, 74, a white-haired widow who lives in a $50-a-month tenement in Providence, is tired and bitter. After five decades of working in textile mills, she receives $3,384 a year from Social Security as well as a small pension. A quarter of her income will go for heat; price increases mean a thinning out of her already poor diet...
...Glass Zoo for good reason. "Menagerie" hints at the intimacy of three creatures with a fragility and warmth that is distinctly not zoo-like. All too human, The Glass Menagerie remembers the post-adolescent longing for freedom and adventure of a young poet caged in a fading, depressionistic tenement, but more, it characterizes the last generation that could daydream innocently. That era's dream machines were the phonograph and the movie projector, but they worked songs and pictures that opened romantic vistas so different from today's defined and redefined motion-coloring-books. The surpisingly good production at South House...
...grade grubbing and sexual anxiety, of pulverizing noise (from your roommate's stereo) and fear of future unemployment (for history and English majors particularly). Some of the causes are familiar. Heavy enrollment, due to simple greed plus the need to admit more women and blacks, sometimes led to tenement-like conditions in dorms originally equipped to handle half as many bodies...
...volume. No captions are needed to display the range and depth of Evans' artistry. He knew the truth that lay in the luminous surfaces of things, whether they were the grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical austerity, though at heart he was a great American romantic-an artist who celebrated the nobility of ordinary objects and people...
...immediacy. The footage seems to have been shot in the fly-on-the-wall manner of Film Maker Frederick Wiseman, but the editing is both jumpier and crisper than in Wiseman's works. In one se quence, the camera pans up an icicle-festooned stairwell inside a Newark tenement, enters an apartment squalid beyond words and comes to rest on an infant cooing over its bottle. No one states the obvious: that child will never have a chance. The faces of parents appear, studies in anger and bewilderment. Visibly, they are passing on pain to children doomed to repeat...