Word: windowless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then V. made an inaccurate projection of the barley harvest, or anyway he was accused of an inaccurate projection. Before anyone could say E = mc2, he was detained in a white, windowless room in the oddest sort of building ("everything from Byzantine to modern institutional"): an unnamed political prisoner in an unnamed state...
Ghost Town. Today Pruitt-lgoe is a case study in misery. Three-fourths of its 2,800 apartments stand empty. Rows of abandoned, windowless buildings loom against St. Louis' skyline like a modern ghost town. Yamasaki's galleries, ill-lighted and unpainted, are havens for junkies and muggers...
Behind a cupboard in his home, police found the entrance to a windowless room containing books on black magic and witchcraft, a nail-studded raincoat, and an altar draped with black velvet. During his five-day trial, it came out that Paisnel believed that he was a descendant of Gilles de Rais, the original Bluebeard. De Rais was hanged in 1440 after admitting that he had murdered something like 200 children whom he had lured to his castle in France "for my daily pleasures...
...over five tragic and bewildering years in U.S. history-an era of deeply controversial war, vast social change, urban riots and a nearly debilitating crisis of the national psyche. Yet measured against the events, L.B.J.'s memoirs* of those years, published this week, sometimes seem oddly smooth and windowless, like the travertine walls of the L.B.J. Library built to house his papers in Austin, Texas. The man who was surely the best raconteur in the White House since Lincoln has digested all of that drama -an Administration that began with an assassination and ended with something like an abdication...
Some of the manifestations there could command places in William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. R.D. Cronquist, for instance, was a carpenter until last July, dabbling on the side in ministerial work. Now the mustachioed, goateed Cronquist is the pastor of the Grace Fellowship Chapel, a windowless, corrugated shed...