A green-bottomed swimming pool sits empty, its diving board presumably no longer used, and massive circular foundations of concrete mark the spots where gun batteries once stood.
Here and there, the former communist regime has left its mark in the form of concrete apartment blocks, but when the horse-drawn sleighs jingle by, you can almost imagine princesses and archdukes wrapped under the furs.
But its cutoff marked a rare moment of concrete Congressional pushback on the Obama administration's Afghan strategy.
His view, which would nowadays be called inscriptionalism, is that logical systems are actual collections of concrete marks, whether printed on paper in books and journals, or in handwritten notes, or more ephemerally as spoken words, chalk marks on blackboards, or (nowadays) patterns on computer screens.
Their auto trail was marked by a series of concrete markers 8 feet tall along the 400 mile roadway from the Indiana state line northward to Mackinaw City.
Some viewers may notice what Day emphasizes in "Corrections & Collections": that the design of many modern prisons and contemporary museums, marked by a sort of concrete asceticism, flows from the same post-minimalist wellspring.
When American Legion Chaplain Bill Cook peered through the chainlink fence at the windswept landscape — stripes of concrete marking a scrubby field framed by dark green foothills in the distance — he remembered the Phantoms.
A welter of concrete barriers marked the entrance to the Green Zone.
The first was its celebrated 1961 Literacy Campaign, which marked in concrete terms the importance of education for an embattled society in transition.
The Netzarim junction, marked by concrete turrets and razor wire of an Israeli Army outpost, has been besieged daily by hundreds of Palestinians.
Laguna Beach architect Mark Singer, whose dramatic use of concrete, rock, glass and exposed steel marked a sharp contrast from the traditional wood cottages in the beach community, has died.
