For years, a holiday in the Dominican Republic entailed staying at a walled-in, cookie-cutter resort.
The block-wide, walled-in Czech beer garden has enough picnic tables to comfortably seat 800 and is merrily packed all summer with pitcher-swilling, sausage-eating bonhomie.
And if the new owners get to feeling cramped, they can always expand--Pulte designs the houses so that a third story or a walled-in patio out back can easily be added.
In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.
According to Umansky, the Hollywood dream couple purchased the glass-walled home in 2005 and were considering completely remodeling the one-story home but decided in the end it was too much work.
Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.
Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.
It will require a departure from the walled-garden mentality in which the operation of a static Web site or a network of disparate branded blogs has been the status quo.
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What makes the success of "Clybourne Park" so interesting is that American theater is a monoculture, a thick-walled bubble in which you'll look long and hard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.
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Here in Qobtan Jebel, a pinprick village of century-old stone walled homes in the hills west of Aleppo, Mr. Shehab Eddin's word is law, at least for now.
Mark Kurlansky is eating a steaming plate of chipirones en su tinta (squid in its own ink) at Marichu, a quaint, brick-walled Basque restaurant near United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
His Viipuri City Library of 1927-35, the Turun Sanomat building of 1928-30, for a newspaper in Turku, and the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium of 1929-33, were assured exercises in the new, white-walled, abstract aesthetic.
They adjoin one another in glass-walled offices with Fiorina inhabiting a far corner.
Now they are prized and pricey, found on mezzanines overlooking the kitchen or in glass-walled rooms adjoining the "hot line, " where cooks dish up their vittles.
The three-hour experience at Remy starts by meeting a sommelier in Remy's glass-walled 900-bottle wine room to pre-select wines for the evening and finishes with enough food to skip the next morning's breakfast buffet.
Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.
In the village of Bara, about 40 miles south-west of the state capital Patna, families sit listlessly in the shade of their mud-walled homes.
In a white-walled village where the sun made me squint, I went to see a doctor.
In a glassed-walled conference room overlooking downtown Boston, traders at Harvard Management Co.
Lille springs to life at night: taverns and brasseries start to fill from around 11 pm, when tourists and locals share stories in the wooden-walled drinking holes off the Grand Place and throughout Vieux-Lille.
At the neon-pink-walled factory of Soul Stix Surfboards, in the surf ghetto of San Clemente, Calif.
Eventually all three blasters were turned on the unsuspecting web producers and audience development team members who sit in unguarded, low-walled cubicles at the center of the New Newsroom.
Glass-walled lobbies opened on to historic cityscapes that allowed guests an anxiety-free feeling of participation in a foreign world.
Come to the neighbourhood local, Societi Bistro, to dine in the courtyard garden, with Table Mountain views, or in the atmospheric, brick-walled and wine-rack covered interior on unfussy bistro dishes, such as ostrich burgers or tomato fettuccine, all washed down with local wine or beers that have been expertly sourced.
Half a dozen computers were set up in a starkly decorated, white-walled living space.
Still, there is an extensive security presence in the walled colonial city of Cartagena for the summit -- including more than 7, 600 police officers and thousands more troops.
Meanwhile, Abdelazziz lives in a walled concrete compound with thundering diesel generators providing 24-hour electricity.
In Armamar, local fare gets an update at DOC, a glass-walled box on the river.
Because of Apple's "walled garden" approach, the software available on its App Store is relatively protected from government-sponsored malware, in contrast to the Android operating system.
Roads skirt walled villages with castles fit for Sleeping Beauty, and picture-perfect towns tumble down to lakesides where sailboats bob in the sunset in search of the Frog Prince.
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