Human waste bubbled into cells; overheated buildings put inmates and officers on edge; gang members broke off pieces of the radiators and sharpened them into weapons.
Reading Michael is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind; reading Matthew is like taking a deep, warm bath with a glass of wine balanced on the soap dish.
Philip lived extremely frugally, with no heating in his home; he flung open windows at the overheated university buildings, and was out walking in all weathers.
If you live in one of those uninhabitably overheated Manhattan apartment buildings, you need read no further.
He had raced on foot from East 96th Street to the office on West 48th Street, "snapping pictures of overheated crowds and overflowing buildings along the way," then climbed 10 flights to the newsroom, only to miss the deadline.
Such an overheated urbanization rate may result in an excessive building supply that surpasses the building occupancy rate and thereby may turn the real estate boom into a bust.
Henry Gifford, president of Gifford Fuel Savings Inc., a Manhattan-based heating contractor, said he uses what he calls "a double-hung windowstat" to determine whether a building is wasting fuel by being unnecessarily overheated.
SHANGHAI — In Shanghai's overheated property market, buyers typically gravitate toward glossy new buildings, and the more luxurious, the better.
Given the quality of buildings that have sprung up on the overheated fringe of the Olympic site, there is not much to inspire confidence that what comes next will be any better.
Then the occupants of innumerable apartments and office buildings, weary and befuddled after a long season of overheated quarters, might find relief in the cooling gusts of the machine.
