When it works, this silly symphony of jerk pans and jump cuts can be both authentically experiential and conceptually playful, as in a breathtaking rescue from an apartment building listing like the Tower of Pisa.

CNN: Review: 'Cloverfield' something to see

One evening not long ago, I visited Paul Mainardi, a lawyer with a professorial manner who lives in Philadelphia, in an apartment tower with a wide view of the Delaware River.

NEWYORKER: The Story of a Suicide

The well-known venture capitalist recalled the incident while sitting on a leather sofa in his staggering penthouse: a newly completed two-bedroom, three-bath 5, 500-square-foot apartment on the 60th floor of the Millennium Tower with views from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge and beyond.

WSJ: Tom Perkins's Penthouse Fit for King

She staged the evening of tapas in her apartment high up in a residential tower near City Hall.

BBC: Would you eat in a stranger's home?

The men, who were badly burned and weren't identified, were found on a bed inside a bedroom of a ground-floor apartment in the 10-story tower on Story Avenue in the Castle Hill neighborhood, a law-enforcement official said.

WSJ: 2 Bodies Found at Site of Fire in the Bronx

There also were FBI raids at an apartment in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and a Madison Avenue art gallery owned by two of the defendants.

WSJ: Feds in NY: Russian mob ran celebrity poker games

In Fengyuan, a 12-story apartment building peeled off from an adjoining tower and landed on its side, killing at least 13 of the 71 occupants.

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