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...raped. Moments before, two Sudanese soldiers had cleared the market by casually firing volleys into the air, sending townspeople scurrying for cover. But Maka had crept back to lock up her vegetable store - the soldiers often stole from the vendors - when the two men wedged their way into the doorway. They demanded food, and when Maka refused, they shut the door and took much more...
...gaining the support of the public and publicly respected Harvard professors. Intellectual celebrities help legitimize and strengthen students’ complaints in the eyes of the bureaucrats upstairs. (For example: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wants you to divest, too. We’ll sit in this doorway until you notice...
...canvas. In one room, Murata painted scenes from a deer hunt?a common Kamakura-period pastime that frequently took place at the foot of Mount Fuji?in the finely detailed and colorful Yamato-e style, which emphasizes the horses' musculature and bowmen's straining faces. But look through a doorway created by parting two screens in the hunting room and the viewer sees that the next room is connected thematically. There, dominating the back wall is another Murata masterpiece, a gigantic painting of Mount Fuji, this time in the more gauzy, monochromatic suiboku style favored by Zen monks, which superbly...
Becoming boys again as they describe their first kisses, crushes on schoolteachers and schoolyard games, they vividly retell stories like how Greenberg took apart a TV set so it would fit through a small doorway and then reassembled it on the other side...
...bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels was to fill the "god-shaped hole" left by his loss of faith. Her faith intact, Kennedy knows that God can be discerned in many things, even in the perfect form - a "long, slim doorway to somewhere else" - of a bottle of Bushmills. Paraidise is a deep drink...