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They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.
Children playing in a nearby garden saw her hanging from her bedroom window in the multi-storey block.
When Katrina struck, he was looking out a window toward the levee about a block away, the one that was supposed to keep him safe.
Feng shui had to be considered: A new round window receives morning sun, and a wall was built to block the chi flowing in from the front door from going out the opposite windows.
That new three-story monster-house on the block, could you believe two mil, those show-off window arches and did you get a load of that corny balcony, all of it throwing the neighborhood out of whack, a crazy eyesore, but hey, it was driving property values up, he could live with that.
The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.
His basic principle was the broken-window theory: If you don't fix one window in the building, another will be broken and then another, and eventually the whole block will be lost.
As this was long before window air conditioners bested the noises of a neighborhood's tropical nights, the broadcast blanketed the block from Keer to Chancellor a block on which not a single Republican lived in any of the thirtyodd two-and-a-half-family houses or in the small new apartment building at the Chancellor Avenue corner.
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