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Another new cost-cutting innovation sweeping the country is the California-inspired "great room," a substitute for both the living room and the family room. For privacy's sake, living rooms traditionally are cut off from other rooms in a house by a hallway, staircase or dining room. The great room, however, opens directly onto every other room in the house. This saves the construction cost of building a hallway. Says Daniel W. Miller, an Orlando, Fla., real estate consultant: "Hallways are the result of lazy architects, and the days of the formal living room and dining room...
...reining himself in during the rest of the campaign, serious damage has already been done. Reagan has long since learned how deftly to return the President's bombs to the sender. After Carter's Chicago attack, Reagan looked at the television cameras in a Pennsylvania hotel hallway, shook his head as if he had been let down by his best friend, and confessed to being "saddened that anyone-particularly someone who has held that position-could intimate such a thing...
...little boy urges, tugging impatiently at his mother's blouse. "Un momenta," she replies, searching the bustling hallway for the bright red T shirt of her other son. "¿Donde esta Miguel?" A moment later, Miguel bursts through the throng of chattering children and appears at his mother's side. "¿Qué vamos supper, Mom ?" he asks. "What's for supper...
...civil court judge ruled two hours before the showing that, as far as he was concerned, the film was not obscene. Outside, in the hallway, Hardoon and Codinha said they were "unsure" what the judge had ruled, and that anyway they would not let it stand in the way of a good prosecution...
...trial, which last week was at the jury-selection stage. The trial is expected to last three months and involve more than 2,000 pieces of evidence. Jittery city officials considered canceling a lunchtime jazz concert scheduled outside the courthouse the day after the wrestling match in the hallway but finally decided to let it take place. And so, reassuringly, blacks and whites gathered in the warm sunshine of Greensboro to munch hot dogs and tap their toes to musical riffs just a few dozen yards from the site of a trail with bitter racial overtones...