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...customers aren't going to stand in a muddy courtyard in the rain looking at magazines," Richard Skinner, former manager of the store, said yesterday. In addition, Skinner and the owners expect the entire site to be condemned at a special meeting of the Cambridge Zoning Board tonight...
...Throughout Renoir's films all characters' actions are social in nature; scarcely a man performs an action by himself, or for himself; every act is a species of public performance. Even when Michel Simon awakens in La Chienne (1931) and goes to shave, a window behind him reveals the courtyard of his apartment building, and beyond that another window in which a woman does her laundry. Nobody in Renoir's movies is alone; everyone performs his personal actions for society. Those individuals who, like Toni and Andre Jurieu, find this omnipresence of society an intolerable constraint, end being killed...
Muscat and Oman had only six miles of paved roadway, and the Sultan's red 1955 Chrysler Imperial rusted in the palace courtyard for lack of any place to go. Music and dancing were forbidden and women were compelled to wear mid-calf skirts despite summer temperatures of 130° F. Electricity and running water were unknown to most people. The xenophobic Said permitted few foreigners in and fewer Omanis out, but an estimated 200,000 subjects managed to flee during the past ten years. Cannons sounded curfew after sundown. With only three schools in the entire sultanate...
...night watchmen in Quincy spends a good part of his time trying to force outside a German Shepherd stray which has recently made Quincy his home. The dog, named Woof by a few students, is well trained and extremely friendly, and now he's afraid to leave the courtyard. Any move by the superintendent or his staff to get rid of Woof is not going to make him very popular with the rest of the House, which has started providing for his needs...
...land-consuming, unsightly parking lots; instead, the company's 2,200 employees drive from homes as far away as New Jersey straight into the building, which contains garage space for 1,600 cars. They take elevators up to their offices, where they have a view on an interior courtyard or out over treetops and greenery...