The patchwork of walls and levees that fell apart after Katrina were, in the words of the corps' own report on the disaster, "a system in name only".
"Forget Kevin McCloud or World of Interiors," she writes, "my design guru has always been Little Grey Rabbit, with her patchwork, white walls, plates on a dresser and gingham".
The patchwork of walls and levees built over the course of 40 years was still far from complete when the storm came, and even the Army Corps of Engineers admitted that this was "a system in name only".
And at night, they padded down the hall to the bathroom and back to the classrooms where the carpeting was covered by a wall-to-wall patchwork of sleeping bags.
After meeting with Mr. Bush, Israeli officials said that there remained a disagreement with the United States on the barrier -- a patchwork of concrete wall, electric fencing and barbed wire -- but that Israel would look for ways to add gates or take other actions to make it less onerous to the Palestinians.
Intimate dining nooks, mirrors, heavy dark blue drapery, fat pillows in brilliant patchwork and golden walls give the dining room a Near Eastern touch.
The works include Wadsworth Jarrell's "Revolutionary," from 1971, a 5-by-4-foot acrylic painting of Angela Davis rendered in Day-Glo colors; and "Urban Wall Suit," a patchwork woman's garment meant to resemble a graffiti-covered brick wall, by Mr. Jarrell's wife, Jae, and Jeff Donaldson's watercolor "Wives of Shango," both from 1969.
Atherosclerosis usually displays a patchwork of partially normal vessel wall, focal inflammation, and calcifications.
The frame is made of wood, while the walls are a patchwork of corrugated iron, slats of thin plywood and tarpaulin stamped with the UN refugee agency logo.
