Word: passageway
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...simply organize her life through her closet. She realized her fantasies. Spending $50,000, she remade her master-bedroom closets, following photos she had ripped out of Architectural Digest. Her husband Bill's closet now has dark wood, granite counters and custom carpeting (plus a secret passageway to his office). Her closet has mirrored doors, crystal knobs, marble counters and muted shades of creamy beige and icy green, much like a Jimmy Choo shop she adores. "It feels like I'm shopping in a fancy store every day," she says...
...criticizing a developing country for its inability to guard its border with Iraq while the U.S. has been unable to secure its own border with Mexico? Why should Syria, which opposed the war, put all its efforts toward securing a border that is being used as a passageway into Iraq for insurgents? We should strengthen our own borders before we bully other nations. Gabriel E. Sarah Tucson, Arizona...
...criticizing a developing country for its inability to guard its border with Iraq while the U.S. has been unable to secure its own border with Mexico? Why should Syria, which opposed the war, put all its efforts toward securing a border that is being used as a passageway into Iraq for insurgents? We should strengthen our own borders before we bully other nations. Gabriel E. Sarah Tucson, Arizona...
Some signs of normality are particularly vivid: on Thursday night, the night of the attacks, a number of homeless people make their beds at Marble Arch, in the still accessible passageway to the Underground. They do not have the luxury of deciding to move to a safer part of the world, unlike the tourists who returned home after the attacks. On Friday, retail shopping at the many department stores on Oxford Street proceeds unfettered. Despite their adverse effect on the stock market, the attacks have not stopped most shoppers’ determination to take advantage of sale prices...
...what was truly shocking was the behavior of the people walking through that passageway. Scores of men and women in suits walked right past her, heads never even turning, as if she didn’t exist. Others glanced at her and seemed to hesitate with their heads, but were propelled onwards by their feet. It almost seemed like the Devil was playing a game of Lemmings with men and women in business suits, and they were dropping, one by one, off the plane of sanity...