The 1,337 apartments offered interior plumbing, more window space and more light and air than typical slum apartments.

The slum apartment could have been dozens he'd seen.

In no time, Downey, disguised as a plumber, is breaking into Angela's slum apartment to plant hidden microphones to transmit conversations to an F.B.I. "plant" or listening post one floor up.

They looked like slum apartments, she thought.

How she's comfortable attending a black-tie wedding, keeping an eye on tropical birds, on the floor of a slum apartment with the rats.

Nettie runs into the now down-and-out Lily on the street and takes her up to her slum apartment to get warm and meet the family.

In it, a wretched-looking man and woman, accompanied by two miniaturized figures possibly representing children, are ensconced on a mattress in a slum apartment.

Security forces took the offensive ten days ago, storming a mosque packed with militant worshippers in the southern tourist resort of Aswan and raiding eight slum apartments in Cairo.

But his lowest point came during a year of writing in a slum apartment in Baltimore, complete with mice, brown drinking water and drug trafficking across the street.