Word: inhabitability
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...York’s soul is in the fluctuating mass of people that continue to wander its noisy streets and inhabit its cramped apartments. That is why, no matter how much the city’s physical shell will change, I have always been and will always be a New Yorker...
...inhabit a new lifestyle if you have to do it in that dumpy old body? Extreme Makeover, the only one of ABC's late-season blitz of reality shows to make fall's prime-time schedule, has petitioners beg, Queen for a Day style, to win packages of plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry and sundry other injections and deletions. It's not surprising that Extreme is crass, but it is also maudlin. (As is TLC's plastic-surgery show, A Personal Story. In its credits, words float across the screen: LIPOSUCTION ... SELF-ESTEEM ... BREAST AUGMENTATION ... DIGNITY ... RHINOPLASTY.) A stay-at-home...
...People don't want to be in the kind of space that they inhabit every day," says Hadid. She calls the central conceit of the interior an "urban carpet," black diagonal stairways that hang in space like gangways. It will not just circulate crowds but also provide some of the same interior spectacle as Wright's great spiral at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Or think of the escalator atrium at any canny shopping mall. To be a museum these days is to compete in the world of theme parks and retail. That is fine with Hadid...
Memoirs left many bewildered by how a white American male could inhabit so completely the head and heart of a young Japanese woman...
...these moments, so slowly I barely even noticed, I have come to inhabit a version of this place that is uniquely my own. This campus is my roommates, The Crimson, the unlikely cast of Square characters whose lives have intersected briefly with my own. I have found that even if you never move from a place, time moves you, as layer upon layer of experience transforms the familiar into something foreign...