Evenings, we'd go to the movies, or eat at an overpriced restaurant, or lie around Ilan's spacious and oddly neglected apartment.
Like a sleepwalker out of Kafka, Packer is drawn to a shabby, neglected apartment cluttered with the debris of a broken society, where he meets an aggrieved ex-employee (Paul Giamatti at his most forlorn and aggressive), his head in a towel that gives him the appearance of a Jewish mourner saying Kaddish or the cowled grim reaper.
The killing happened outside a raucous teenage party in a neglected apartment building that serves as a shelter for homeless families.
Its major focus has been housing, marshaling tenants and badgering village officials to crack down on landlords who have neglected major downtown apartment buildings.
She appealed to the city and its individual agencies for help, but none wanted to help her because her apartment, neglected by the landlord, had 33 separate housing code violations, from moldy walls to loose windows and broken pipes in the bathroom.
On a late afternoon, the cluttered apartment seemed neglected and gloomy.
"That has given us the opportunity to develop duplexes on ground level which open on to the long, walled — and very neglected — gardens, and upper apartments which will have roof gardens.
Travel across Russia today, and you'll find, as during Soviet times, city after city of crumbling, heatless apartment blocks and neglected elderly citizens whose value to the state diminishes with distance from Moscow.
In "Tailors' Dummies," the father recalls a surprising discovery he made upon entering a neglected room in an old apartment: "From all the crevices in the floor, from all the mouldings, from every recess, there grew slim shoots filling the grey air with a scintillating filigree lace of leaves: a hot-house jungle, full of whispers and flicking lights — a false and blissful spring".
In "Tailors' Dummies," the father recalls a surprising discovery he made upon entering a neglected room in an old apartment: "From all the crevices in the floor, from all the mouldings, from every recess, there grew slim shoots filling the grey air with a scintillating filigree lace of leaves: a hot-house jungle, full of whispers and flicking lights—a false and blissful spring".
They said that the land of parkways and subdivisions could shake off its blahs only by building up — by filling neglected downtowns with taller buildings, apartments, townhouses, stores and parking garages, and enhancing mass transit.
