Word: overnighting
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...Johnson was impressed with the festival as a whole, particularly the treatment of the filmmakers. “I stayed overnight and they put me up in the Marriott,” he says. “They rented out a whole bar for us on Saturday night...
...Shadow. As they made their way to work on the morning of Aug. 6, residents of New York, Boston, Minneapolis and 370 other cities in the U.S. and abroad discovered that artists had been at work overnight, painting silhouettes of people on streets. The silhouettes were intended as reminders of the Hiroshima victims who, caught outdoors by the blast, were vaporized, leaving no trace except for profiles etched on Hiroshima sidewalks. The arresting images, usually created with plastic stencils and rollers dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters...
Virtually overnight, Chongqing has become the largest city not only in China but in the world. Territory to the north and west has been annexed, so that the population now encompasses 13.89 million people.[*] Some residents live in newly built apartment blocks, others in air-raid shelters dating back to the war. All seem to be in constant, industrious motion. Chongqing, as a result, is a swirling cauldron of noise and smoke as buzzing motorbikes and overloaded buses strain to climb its steep hills...
...student hears the term mizu-shobai for the first time and later learns what it means: the water trade, the fly-by-night world of bars, baths and brothels to which Ichimonji has given him an introduction. The next morning, the visitor wakes up with the woozy feeling that "overnight he had arrived in Japan...
...wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize. With a solo show at New York's Asia Society in 2002, Ah Xian's commercial cachet soared, with prices for his sculptures tripling overnight...