Last April, when Stritch gave a farewell concert and relocated to Michigan, where she grew up, it was like Tavern on the Green closing all over again.
The government had been considering several options: whether to close all the plants over time or to maintain enough reactors to provide a smaller but still substantial percentage of the country's electricity needs.
But as you come closer, intricate, all-over networks of imagery come into focus: popping eyes, open mouths, breasts, hands, heads, all recognizable from the portraits.
A wonderful small gouache, "Astrological Chart" (1957), is a close-knit all-over arrangement of tiny pictographs that looks like a chart of mystical mathematical formulas.
As G-Day gets closer, seniors all over the country are being asked the dreaded question, "What are your plans after graduation?" Family members, friends, and even strangers have the best intentions in asking this; however, if you don't have an answer, it can bring about the longest 30 seconds of your life.
Snooker halls, struggling with increased rents, are closing all over the country.
Average racing enthusiasts are now in their 50s and getting older, and smaller racetracks have been closing all over America.
And with libraries closing all over the country, we might start to wonder how much time remains to our culture.
At 11am, against a background of pubs closing all over England (the CAMRA estimate is now 40 a week) – closing as implacably as the lights the Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey saw going out all over Europe in 1914 – the Old Red Lion was back in business in the Northamptonshire village of Litchborough.
What is clear is that, although a cleanup of 42nd Street may have left the impression that sex shops were closing all over, so far, the city's sex industry has outwitted city officials by thriving under a zoning law designed to thwart it -- particularly the so-called 60-40 provision.
