Word: tenement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pool of their own blood. And petty mobsters. He was great at petty mobsters--half the guys in his pictures look as if their nickname was Mugsy. As one of the most unabashed tabloid-news photographers, Weegee was also supremely good at car crashes, dazed escapees from tenement fires, transvestites being hustled out of paddy wagons, and Peeping Tom shots of lovers wrestling in twos (and threes!) on the nighttime beach at Coney Island...
...Hollywood for a few years, where he played bit parts in B-movies and took candid shots of the stars. Some of them, like his Hollywood Babylon-ish picture of Jayne Mansfield with her teeth and her bra in full forward thrust, have the lowdown feel of his tenement days. But when he came back to New York in 1952, he didn't understand the postwar city of slum clearance and social workers, the one that the Jews and the Irish and the Italians were all leaving for the suburbs. So Weegee moved on too. Until his death...
...teach them about the art and culture that I find interesting. They will certainly read Dickens and eat Roquefort. They will also read a book with illustrations like those I saw in "Art from the Kotah." I will tell them about Grandpa's childhood in a New York City tenement. The other cultures they will learn about will depend upon their interests...
...Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. He charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. Maggie, a photographer, bugs the place, adding sound to his pictures, thereby doubling a misery that...
...Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiancee, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. Professorially, he charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. It?s never easy being a spy in the house of love. It?s certainly...