Mr. Nitardy must have been particularly annoyed; he had just altered his old row house at 176 Columbia Heights in the Regency style, a crisp, attractive work by Stevenson & Studds.
Then Vicky, the manageress here, tells me that the company have just altered the software especially for me, so I will be able to charge overnight.
Hodgson played the straightest of bats in the build-up, declining to portray this as any different to a routine friendly as England came north of the border for the first time since the Euro 2000 qualifying play-off in 1999 - although the naked hostility displayed by both sets of supporters to the respective national anthems may have just altered his opinion.
Far from being 'banned', the page has just been altered slightly to give the impression of moving into the 21st century.
Best known for uber-realist novels set in New York City, he was unsure whether his current project would be able to accurately reflect the new post-9/11 city, the "New York which has just been altered forever".
In other key roles, Sheena Wagstaff ushers the Met into the twenty-first century, Kathy Halbreich keeps the bar high at MOMA (not always easy), the Guggenheim's Nancy Spector gives artists authority, and Donna de Salvo has just masterminded a history-altering installation of American art at the Whitney.
Christensen gives a different case in which an agent has just consumed a mind-altering drug (LSQ) that he expects in hour's time will make him believe that he can fly, without conferring upon him any such power (Christensen 1991).
He's always got a look on his face that says, "I never kid," even when he's flashing a bemused smile at the expression on the face of someone whose groin has just experienced a life-altering encounter with Jack Reacher's fist.
