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Sympathy aside, Ayrton patterns his pictures as rigidly as a tile floor. "There's an abstract under every Ayrton," he says. But his abstractions are well disguised. "I refuse to accept formal equivalents of a triangle for a breast, or two dots for an eye. I have no desire to gouge a hole through a woman's figure. Trouble is I'm so progressive I'm reactionary...
...handball court was built at the south east corner of the building, but this has long fallen into disuse, as has the swimming pool of white tile and marble next to the court. The pool is usually kept locked; firemen had to break down the door during Tuesday's blaze...
...vandalism, carelessness, or both. The Bon-Chong, the old black market, went up, and with it went at least three square blocks of ramshackle stores and dwellings. By 9 p.m. the fires were sending showers of sparks cascading down on the steel-shuttered U.S. Embassy and on the tile-roofed Chosun Hotel, where a South Korean flag hung limply in the cold. The hotel itself was completely deserted. The staff had fled during the day, and the building had the queerly disturbing air of a ghost ship. There were two half-filled teacups on the room clerk's desk...
...limited to men with an A.B., A.M., or an honorary degree. The composition of the Board has also broadened geographically; after the Civil War only Massachusetts men could serve, while today two-thirds of the Overseers come from outside the state. Beyond the East, there are six from tile Mid-west and two from California...
Later when Rabbi Zigmond looked into the bathroom, he found a bloodspot on the floor near the doorway. Brickman's glasses were lying unbroken on the tile floor. Another blood spot was on the sofa in the television room...