As we hauled our packs from the taxi, Umoni appeared from a neighbour's house, beaming in leopard-print trousers and a red fleece, ushering us inside with a flurry of maternal fuss.
The film's powerful individual scenes seem like excerpts from a missing whole, well-appointed rooms in a house whose beams and girders have been cut away.
Anybody could run wires to a few hundred houses, beam programmes and collect money.
These are my children," he said, flushing but proud, as he showed visitors recent photographs of his children, Carla, 7; Carlos, 5; and Gabriela, 3, each holding a single flaming red flower in front of the house, beaming brightly into the lens.
Once a week between 1971 and 1979, Ms. Brandow's peaked-roof house beamed into millions of living rooms as Archie and his wife, Edith Jean Stapletonn), sang an eardrum-shattering duet.
Today, the Ace Hotel unveils its latest collaboration with the Tokyo-based fashion house Beams.
"He came into the house, beaming, bursting with pride," the archbishop said.
("It's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me," Mr. Johnston says of the house, beaming).
The rats lounged in the long tubes of bamboo that served as house beams and spent nights there sharpening their teeth.
"If we think about a strong ethical culture as a house with wooden beams, respectful behaviour is the centre, load-bearing beam," said Linda Fisher Thornton, author of 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership and chief executive officer of Leading in Context, a consulting firm based in Richmond, Virginia, in the US.
