There are no dogs in Diane Archer's apartment building at 18th and Guerrero Streets, but several weeks ago dozens of piles of animal waste were discovered on the property's flat pebble and tar roof.
"We used to call it Pebble Beach because they had pebbles on the roof," says Geraldine Johnson, 43, who grew up in the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn and lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
When his children were younger, Reid tossed pebbles on the roof to simulate the patter of reindeer.
I have seen their echoes in the Lycian tombs that stand in the sea at Ucagiz in Turkey: in the ark-shaped roofs of Coptic churches in Cairo; in Gallarus Oratory; in my grandfather's allotment shed; in the roof of the pebble-dash council house in which I grew up.
S-Bursts sound like popcorn popping, or, as Flagg has noted, like "a handful of pebbles thrown onto a tin roof".
The kiln consists of a drying chamber of 0.362 m3 capacity, a single glazed flat plate collector and transparent roof area of 0.54 m2, a pebble bed capacity of 0.1 m3, and a kiln orientation of 7°N-S facing south.
In closely packed orthoconglomerates, however, there is often a distinct imbrication; i.e., flat pebbles overlap in the same direction like roof shingles.
When the principal climbed aboard to cajole him, Bailey bolted out the door, scaled the side of the school and sought refuge on the roof, from which he threw pebbles at the strangers below.
This morning I was sitting in the curators' apartment at Hampton Court Palace, reading a report that contained the not-so-gripping words "the stone artefact assemblage contains two whetstones, two slate pencil tips, several fragments of roof slates and some river pebbles".
They were working in the large, high-ceilinged Martinson auditorium at the Public Theatre where a roof window looks down on the stage when a pebble fell down onto the floor.
