The story of Fugitive Kind, with its lavish use of idiomatic language, follows closely that of "American Gothic," where Terry Meighan, on the lam following a recent botched bank heist, seeks refuge in a riverfront
flophouse managed by the proprietor's nineteen-year-old adopted daughter, Glory.
American Gothic grants Tennessee Williams a "woodian" play
the
flophouse, Rosa's mother comes to cuddle him and comfort him:
The portrait of a girl: a reading of Last Tango in Paris
If he sells about 25-30 copies per day, he can earn about 3,000 yen, enough for three bento lunches from the convenience store and a night in a
flophouse. This is the first step-to sleep with a roof over his head.
Sano-san--a man with a vision
In that time, ownerships have come and gone and the clubhouse has been a
flophouse or drive-through bank for highly paid imports with no sense or care about the traditions.
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Has AIM become a
flophouse for flagging companies, or is it firmly on course to achieving the goal of being an attractive market in its own right, asks Birmingham law firm Hammonds?
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Others lived with several folks to a room, and one even lived in a
flophouse that only charged by the week.
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That first winter, I kept my little $85-a-month
flophouse room in town.
Living free. (homesteading)
In "The Sunshine Hotel," the narrator is the guy who runs the
flophouse.
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In 1987, the transformation from
flophouse to historic inn complete, the Sylvia Beach Hotel opened, offering 20 rooms honoring such writers as F.
Rooms with a vision
I headed down to Miami Beach and found the fictitious Primrose Motel, the dilapidated
flophouse where police sergeant Mosely lived in "Miami Blues." It's now the ultra-upscale Hotel Nash on Collins Avenue.
State of my ART
In 1986, for instance, Contraband rolled and tumbled in the enormous sunken pit left by a fatal San Francisco arson fire eleven years earlier that had burned a Mission District
flophouse to the ground.
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The other narratives of union organizers and supporters (most of whom are themselves day-labourers),
flophouse proprietors and shopkeepers, bureaucrats, policemen, missionaries, and journalists, offer varied sharp insights into the self-perceptions of the labourers and the economic and political structure that sustains and constrains communities such as San'ya.
San 'ya blues: laboring life in contemporary Tokyo
While Zaluda is finally more interested in exposing the sexism and racism of these so-called "benevolent" societies, he also enables us to recognize the depth of Hurstwood's fall when, at novel's end, the Elk who was once secure within his Protective Order becomes one of the "cattle" exposed to the elements and herded into a
flophouse to die.
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Set in the late 19th century in a dilapidated
flophouse, the play examines society's outcasts.
Lower Depths, The
A laser beam traces the bullet's path from the former
flophouse to the balcony, where the beam is then reflected toward the sky.
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