And paradoxically, all the attention to this obscure room on a drab corridor has brought newcomers knocking, as if at the door of a speakeasy.
It has ten bars, subsidized by the taxpayer, and a labyrinth of corridors, cramped elevators, and obscure moral codes — both personal and political — that play into the hands of old-timers.
But even attendees who chose not to seek out obscure corners of Milan could walk down a corridor and see the world.
In the museum's show of Mr. Bernard's holdings, "A Child's View: 19th-Century Paper Theaters," its corridors are lined with vignettes from Wagner and Shakespeare and obscure plays like Isaac Pocock's "Miller and His Men," about a kidnapped heroine rescued from an exploding tower.
The Central Basin Municipal Water District's relationships with state legislators, a former mayor of Bell and other political insiders have enabled the obscure utility to accumulate clout in Sacramento and in the industrial corridor along the 710 Freeway.
Consider the never-ending queues down multiple corridors to view that great painting; the thick glass case that obscures it; and the difficulty we have in just seeing it unencumbered by the baggage of money and fame.
To visit the pianist and thinker Charles Rosen, you walked down a long corridor lined with bookshelves, past the complete works of famous and obscure… If you happen to be a classical pianist, you're bound to feel a certain futility in the face of your stereo.
To visit the pianist and thinker Charles Rosen, you walked down a long corridor lined with bookshelves, past the complete works of famous and obscure writers, past a cabinet containing old French spoons, glassware, strange utensils true dusty bric-a-brac, the fruits of decades of Parisian browsing.
It's a hope found not in the corridors of power, but in Mount Pleasant group houses and dogged advocacy groups and obscure nonprofits.
These pipelines and rail corridors will need to be fought as well – indeed the fights are underway, though sometimes obscured by the focus on Keystone.
