The romcom element of Love & Other Drugs is predictable enough, what with its movie version of a struggling artist (boho loft apartment, paint-spattered dungarees), and a slobbish flatmate, Randall's brother, who looks like a permed Jack Black.
He is having the entire apartment painted.
The renovation cost $2,500, which included having the apartment painted.
I found the teacher in his on-campus apartment, painting a still life.
"In those days," she said, "instead of having your apartment painted, you moved".
The letters Kerouac sent from the apartment painted a slightly different portrait.
In our case, the services included having our blinds washed and floors waxed whenever we had our apartment painted.
WHERE TO EAT Foz Velha (Esplanada do Castelo 141; 351-22-615-4178; www.fozvelha.com) fills the rooms of a grand former apartment painted deep shades of scarlet and cornflower blue.
By Hildegarde Dolson The New Yorker, March 11 , 1939P. 85 The writer visits her aunt who had just had the part of her apartment painted.
When her married daughter had her apartment painted white, she scolded, "For the same money, you could have had a color!" O.K., when that daughter became the first woman to be appointed restaurant critic at The New York Times, in 1976, yes, Mrs. Solomon was proud.
