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Also as in Expressionism, her portraits can be grotesque, whether of wealthy loungers on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, or skid-row entertainers in Sammy's Bar on the Bowery.
A Teacher, a Student and Three Books William Meyers 2011
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He lived in a skid-row hotel, with his Brazilian belly-dancer girlfriend and her mother, a pot-smoking, motorcycle-riding party animal who had an affinity for leather jackets.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Internationalista Nancy Ruhling 2011
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Jimmy was a skid-row alcoholic, but my dad always made sure there was a roof over his head by paying his rent on the Bowery.
Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010
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Flowing, separately at first, between these characters is the skid-row loser Gurlick who just happened to have bitten into a discarded hamburger – a hamburger containing a scout seed from a galaxy-spanning hive mind called Medusa.
Theodore Sturgeon's "The Cosmic Rape" (and other reviews) 2008
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Mr. Goldfader revealed methods ranging from impersonating a doctor to snooping around a dead man's skid-row apartment for clues about his bank account.
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Some crave the ghetto fabulous, skid-row kinda love of Bobby & Whitney.
Zondra Hughes: For Men Only: the Truth About Single Women 2009
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And the skid-row Thunderbird drinker is the wrong model: think more the employed person who just drinks every night.
The Los Angeles Liquor Puzzle, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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(Soundbite of music) Mr. GIBBARD: (Singing) The church is blowing, a sad windblown "Kathleen" on the bells of the skid-row slums, and I wake up goopy and woebegone at the Mars Hotel on 4th and Howard.
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(Soundbite of music) Mr. GIBBARD: (Singing) The church is blowing, a sad windblown "Kathleen" on the bells of the skid-row slums, and I wake up goopy and woebegone at the Mars Hotel on 4th and Howard.
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In L.A., the Homeless TB Patient Incentive Program draws street people to a tiny skid-row clinic each day.
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