Before long, Sarah is kidnapped, apparently chloroformed and gagged with a clean white strip of fabric.
In his astonishing polemic Towards an Architecture, published in 1923, he argued that his clean, white, stripped-to-essentials and apparently wholly new architecture reflected the industrial spirit of the times; he also argued that his work inherited the spirit, and even the proportions, of ancient Greek temples and the great cathedrals of the middle ages.
"All I ever said was that it was clean, stripped back and reduced – and that's not the same thing at all.
He had become dissatisfied with his paintings, but instead of tossing the canvases, he washed them clean, stripping the underlying linen of color.
If architects continue to follow the historic traditions that have guided North American and European building designs, we will continue to see trim, clean, stripped surfaces and dense, crystalline forms - pure cubes and rectangles adorned by an occasional sphere or dome as special centrepieces.
Ideally, you should be able to remove the skin in clean strips, leaving none of it behind as you progress around the perimeter of the vegetable.
Eight other sorting yards are scattered around Afghanistan.This unending procession of lumbering armour must be cleaned, stripped of munitions, loaded and secured for shipping.
Cleaned strips were stored in MilliQ water, in separate containers, to avoid contamination with dust.
Don't get in a hurry, make sure where you are going to apply the light strips is clean.
At night, Nicola drenches the spare room's sheets with her sweats; time after time, Helen checks on her, providing clean linens — "stripped and changed, stripped and changed" — and priding herself on her thoughtfulness.
