The basic window today is aluminum-clad and double-hung, meaning it has two sections that slide up and down.
If you've read anything about gentrification before, you'll know that those criteria make it an area primed for investment; it's an inner city pocket offering cheap rents and a bunch of affordable places to hang out, meaning students and arty people have moved in, giving it the cultural capital that developers can exploit on the billboards for their pricey new penthouses.
Translation: to combat the plague of resistant Italian ryegrass, Mississippi's cotton farmers must hit their fields with a "residual" herbicide in the fall – meaning one that hangs around in soil long enough to kill ryegrass for a while, and then come back with yet another herbicide in the spring, to make sure the job has been done.
White balloons in the shape of a cross overlaid with the word "paz", meaning peace, hung from a dilapidated window.
Ms. Bright suggested an entry curtain that appeared to billow even though it was immobile, and subjected mesh and plastic to what she calls a stretch test, meaning she hung them in her studio for a few days to see if they changed shape.
It will hang around for centuries, meaning that the future is sure to be hotter, even if all greenhouse-gas emissions cease overnight.
But both products still have one flaw; when connected, they hang below the iPhone, meaning that an inadvertent knock could dislodge them.
I have a friend who says, "Go where it's warm," meaning only hang out where you are comfortable.
We've been meaning to hang it, but there's a lot we haven't gotten around to. Trying to make our little home in East Africa.
Maybe you can bring another person.. maybe from another group that you've been meaning to hang out with (be a social butterfly, obviously!) or go shopping with your gorgeous cousins.. you can trick the crowd, can't you?
It requires great courage to face a world that has no fixed meaning, a world whose meaning hangs upon the actions of each and every human being.
