"Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music".
When we first meet these monsters, both lawyers from Illinois who cooingly recall first locking eyes from behind the windows of adjacent Starbucks coffee shops, they are in the middle of a tense therapy session.
Cameras follow him out of the theater, into the streets and home to his apartment, where he cooks an omelet, converses with a young neighbor (mimicking "Auto-da-Fé"), tidies up, greets members of the quartet and is rediscovered by the audience behind the windows of an onstage facade.
Then there is the memoir he wrote in California, while waiting for Fanny to extract herself from her unhappy first marriage, in which he describes how, when a child and sick, his nurse would take him to the window, "whence I might look forth into the blue night starred with street lamps, and see where the gas still burned behind the windows of other sickrooms".
Behind him, in the window of the tackle shop, hung a dozen lures with treble hooks on each end.
Behind him, through the window of his living room, I could see a balloon on the ceiling with 100 written on it.
Adkins continued: "I will be sitting down with all the players and they all have agents who will be very active behind the scenes because this is the window of opportunity to move things around".
Behind Cunningham, the windows of Bergdorf's were festooned with blow-ups of his columns.
Immigration baffled, then broke, my father, and so it was my mother who took charge of the motel, my mother who sat behind the plastic window of the manager's suite answering the phone, my mother who cleaned the rooms on weekends and all the other days when the maid didn't show up.
