The jacket hung on the back of his office door, brushing against a chalk drawing his young daughter had done, accumulating a pinkish-white dusting each time the door swung open.
Yes: the showers are those special ones where it is actively hard to open the door to get out of them when you are in it, so you are either trapped in the shower forever or – worse – you have to pull the door in such a way that the slimy edge of the door brushes against you, at which point you have to have a full shower to get the feeling off again.
The brassy yellow tie and too large shirt collar, like a door-to-door brush salesman from a never-was 1976.
Cheap GAZ vans and Lada four-doors brush sides with $100,000 Mercedes.
He'd spent a summer as a door-to-door Fuller Brush salesman, and outsold every other Fuller man in two states.
In the mornings, I took a cup of coffee outside and listened to the wakeup sounds next door: the brush of a broom across the flagstones, the squeak of a faucet, the hectoring of the magpies overhead.
Lifting this cup of coffee is not bad right now, but turning a door handle, brushing my teeth, drying my hair, that hurts.
Ms. Flynn, 66, a retired school administrator, and her husband, Gary, a lawyer who is 64 and also retired, moved into a $1.45 million one-bedroom on the fourth floor in January after three years in the building where Mr. Vader and Mr. Henderson live (they knew the Flynns well enough to advise Mr. Flynn to shut the bathroom door when brushing his teeth).
Jorge Colombo sketches subway doors, using Brushes, an application for the iPhone.
By Jorge Colombo October 19, 2010 Jorge Colombo sketches subway doors, using Brushes, an application for the iPhone.
In the most striking room — a blue vault on the upper floor — Kelly Hayes bends at the torso and walks back and forth while dragging her hands along the floor, later slamming into rows of metal vault doors and brushing past bystanders with melodramatic fury.
