Over the way, kids on bikes are riding the sidewalks, groups of men are gathered round domino tables, slowly considering and then loudly making their moves, and three generations of families are sitting on makeshift chairs, sharing in conversation, food and drink.
Wordlessly, he led me back to the makeshift rim chair and sat me down, and he put a small towel around his neck, the way a hungry diner tucks a napkin into his collar.
That report, which documented extensive abuse and even death in CIA custody, did not indicate that the agency prepared any makeshift electric chairs, nor that interrogators beat detainees with metal rods.
We also climbed and descended the very awkward fire escape entrance to the halfway house numerous times, laden with bending mattresses and huge hoards of old papers, school books, cuddly toys and makeshift tables, chairs and curtains we'd used to try to make the place comfortable.
A dozen or so Ouattara supporters lounged in a makeshift collection of chairs, reading newspapers, chatting, and sipping from bottles.
It tones up your muscles at a very deep level using tiny ultra-slow motion pulsing movements without using equipment (other than a chair or makeshift barre).
Inside, students sat on donated chairs in makeshift classrooms.
Inside, rooms are dark and empty except for a few broken chairs and makeshift desks.
We won't all encounter a young basketball player so committed to developing a sense of where he is on the court that he practices dribbling around lines of chairs with makeshift blinders in eyeglass frames (see John McPhee on Bill Bradley).
