According to the group's president, Maya MacGuineas, the money raised is financing a growing staff of about 35 at a Washington "war room," chapters in up to 35 states and ultimately, perhaps, television ads and other help for politicians — members of Congress or even the president — who would need support in taking unpopular positions on tax increases or spending cuts.
"The decorating-your-room chapter came directly out of having my kids create environments they liked," she said.
Planned around a central glazed cloister, three sides of the building comprise lecture rooms, refectory, chapter room, library and two storeys of cells, each with its own loggia.
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The church assembly room, the chapter house, was often attached to the chancel near the eastern side of the cloister.
Room 1 (Chapter 1) has a pared-down, Edward Hopper-esque bachelor apartment feel.
The Refectory, the Cloister Room, the Chapter House, and the Vestibule can be hired for meetings, receptions and other purposes.
Each room a chapter, a character, in fact, growing, changing, inhabited by dreams, phobias, demons, and visions.
In the basement of the absorbing Dublin Writers Museumm, the warm yellow rooms of Chapter One are ideal for those going to a performance at the Gate Theater.
"Your book doesn't understand belief, it can only tell you what it sees: a hotel lounge with a duck egg and caramel carpet, fat chairs and the quiet of hospital waiting rooms," a chapter of "The Blue Book" begins.
