That, in itself, is quite an exhausting idea.
"The baby is hilarious!" Finished with his tinkering, Mr. Powers opened the door from the cramped room and stepped back out onto the brightly lighted sidewalk.
In a bid to increase apartments' floor space, there are few staircases inside buildings, and the steps are cramped and winding and open to the elements.
Her cramped, four-room apartment, just steps from the Belorussky train station, doubles as both a workshop and showroom, with dozens of pairs of valenki in varying stages of completion scattered around on shelves and on the floor.
Step inside its cramped premises and you find yet another washing line, strung across the stage.
A gray-haired woman passed the lacquered, anthropomorphic pig standing sentry on the sidewalk and stepped into the cramped corridor bracketed by shelves of jarred lupini beans and sweet peppers on one side and a glowing display case packed with chicken rollatini, reggiano cheese and smoked pork knuckles on the other.
The Malfroids pay $425 a month for a cramped two-bedroom home -- a step above their $500-a-month 500-a-month apartment of a few months ago, which was so small they had to sleep in the living room.
The houses they moved into were, says Chinn, a big step up from the cramped and squalid early 19th-century working-class homes nearer the city centre.
Previously, once you found the door, you entered a cramped vestibule and then walked down several steps to a low-ceilinged, carpeted lobby that felt like a basement.
My only path is forward, stepping by inches into the cramped silver box full of silent faces.
