The lowly mollusk should rightly be credited with creating the world's first beach house in the brilliant form of the seashell, that Cambrian-era dwelling that today is sometimes prized and polished, and sometimes trampled underfoot.
Testaments of Roman culture such as baths, floor heating and imported goods (pottery, glass, religious icons and artworks) have been found in even the poorest Roman era dwellings, indicating that Romanization was effective at all levels of society.
like to trade up from shabby Soviet-era dwellings.
"The Greek phrase translated in Luke as 'there was no room at the inn' (Luke 2 7) could also be interpreted as meaning there was not enough space for Mary and Joseph in their extended family's 'living room,' so Mary laid Jesus in a food trough for animals, which were sometimes kept near the entrances of first-century Christian Era cave dwellings found in Bethlehem".
"['Mandingo'] was released at the height of the blaxploitation era, and those films were consciously over the top, dwelling in the more explicit examples that applied to slavery and sexuality, and the racial taboos that grew out of those circumstances," says Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies in USC's School of Cinematic Arts.
Set in the Hollywood of the late seventies and early eighties, the movie admirably resisted bio-pic sentimentality, dwelling comfortably within the contradictions of that closeted era, never telling the audience quite how to respond to this exploitative but genuine marriage.
The reason for dwelling on these pressure points is simply to make the point that, for once, the comparison between eras and times has some meaning, if only because the bad times have been so very bad.
"Lots of spirits dwelling there".
"No point in dwelling on it".
Bradley had been dwelling on this question.
