We left the highway and, following Jeff's directions, went around a rotary and came to a collection of low, flat-roofed, two-story buildings, like shoeboxes, painted light brown.
For all its vaunted legend, Timbuktu remains a collection of low mud houses along narrow, trash-choked streets backed by sand dunes, difficult to reach and unimpressive on first sight.
A collection of low, newish Southwestern-style buildings painted rusty red to blend with the surrounding hills, Red Mountain is attractive and well-maintained but looks like a work in progress.
Much later in the day, the girls are in their dressing room, a battered space furnished with a collection of low, plush couches and embroidered pillows that travel along with them, giving the effect of a Moroccan tent grafted onto an interrogation room.
Now it is re-inventing itself, in an attempt to continue that tradition.In this section The emerald city Precise in every part Speed demon Opportunity strikes twice Reprints Related items Particle physics: Precise in every partMar 25th 2004 Cause for conCERN Oct 26th 2000The Wizard of OzOn the surface, CERN is a collection of low, undistinguished buildings on the outskirts of Geneva.
A collection of low brick buildings set beneath enormous shade trees, it is a place where it is very easy to forget you are in the heart of both a humanitarian disaster zone and, to some degree, a war zone; on most of my visits, the half-dozen policemen detailed to guard the compound were relaxed enough to take long naps in the seats of a rusted-out Land Rover sitting up on blocks.
Then there is the lake, mostly quiet and tucked within a collection of low-rise, pine-covered mountains.
The Drakes Bay farm is a collection of low-lying shacks, residential trailers and piles of shucked oyster shells.
The smallholding, a collection of low-slung, ancient stone buildings hunkering among vines and olive groves, was beautiful.
The Hello Living condo project in Brooklyn was marketed as an urban utopia, a collection of low-rise apartments designed for young families without large inheritances or bonuses.
But if you're expecting a collection of low-impact small plates that allow you to graze mindlessly while you tank up on cabernet franc, you haven't been briefed on the place's pedigree.
