The curtains were drawn shut.
"All day long the curtains were drawn shut and the blinds down.
They got into the elevator, and, as the doors drew shut, she said, "Goodbye, D.O.J".
They retract during the day but are an imposing barrier when they are drawn shut.
"Jim would often sit home with these heavy curtains drawn shut," said Martin Heinz, a friend, one of the few to maintain contact with him in the last months.
When the rescue workers found a body, or at least a body largely intact, they placed it into a black nylon bag, drew shut the zipper and laid it on the edge of the crash site.
There they found a room whose flame-coloured curtains were drawn shut, and whose only form of light derived from large, flickering six-foot candles of the kind normally seen on a church altar.
As has been the case since late last week, the shades at his school were drawn shut, the doors were locked, all physical education classes were confined to the gym and no one was allowed outside until buses and parents showed up.
With the schedule running late, the stadium's gates were just drawing shut when Pascall came through – becoming the first and only amateur woman to complete the route on time.
In his office, the curtains to his right were drawn shut to keep out the view of the opposite hill of Har Homa, a huge Jewish suburb whose construction he had worked against in the 1990s.
To save time and money, Blum does a lot of his work as a producer — making calls to actors, directors and studio heads — in the back of a gray Ford cargo van that he has equipped with wide plush captain's seats, two large video displays and window blinds that are nearly always drawn shut.
