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Couples in wedding finery pose for photographs in front of illuminated shop windows, with Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton and Gucci offering the sort of backdrop for romance more usually provided by the sea or the mountains.
After sundown, well-dressed couples strolled through the warren of alleyways and tunnels, now brightly illuminated by cheery shop windows and klieg-like streetlamps.
When I stuck my head out the window to look, one cop started, reached up with his rifle to smash a silver strip-light overhead, and resumed the violence.American marines on night patrols in western Iraq, who I have accompanied a few times, have a similar habit of smashing fluorescent strip-lights illuminating shuttered shop-fronts and doorways.
Not five o'clock yet, but the light was fading, streets lamps glowing into life, small squares of shop windows illuminated.
What also runs through it is language: words printed, stenciled, painted and illuminated, on newspapers, billboards, shop signs and theater marquees.
In fact, the evening is possibly the best time to stroll around the narrow, winding alleyways, when the maze of little shops is illuminated by a thousand tiny lights.
BAN RAK THAI, Thailand — At night, traditional Chinese red lanterns illuminate the hotels, shop fronts and Yunnanese-style restaurants lining the main road in this highland village of just over 1,000 people.
They lighted a large oil lamp which illuminated the street, a small shopping area where grocers and fruit vendors stay open late this time of year.
The streets of the Ginza and Marunouchi shopping districts are bedecked and illuminated on a scale that shames Regent Street's pedestrian efforts.
Many of the streets and shops of Paris, it is reported, are now illuminated by electric lights, placed on posts.
