I'm up against a stacked house".
In many ways, the forum was a stacked house, filled with union leaders and pro-union immigrants who repeatedly talked about all that unions could do for immigrants.
If most of these borders are still in use 50 years after colonialism ended in much of Africa, it is perhaps because they provide African states with a measure of stability in spite of their arbitrary nature — or maybe because of it: the Berlin Conference borders are a precariously stacked house of cards, and few feel compelled to start rearranging the deck.
All of the narrow, stacked houses fall on one side or the other of the town's main drag, Corso Italia.
The trucks go in empty and come out stacked house-high and road-wide with harvested reeds.
A bold reinvention of the London terrace, Alexandra Road looks like something conjured by the Mayans, a ziggurat of stacked houses and maisonettes that curves along the edge of a railway line, extending great concrete fins down to a street to define private gardens and terraces.
So in attempt to be a good Jewish boy for the first time in a long time, I found myself wearing a sombrero and pink light-up glasses on a rooftop in Jerusalem's ritziest neighbourhood, overlooking the lights of the stacked houses below, taking yet another shot of arak to shouts of "L'Chaim" (cheers, literally "to life").
To begin with, he was born in Haifa in 1938, and the mix there of cultures and religions, as well as the proliferation of modernist stacked housing on Mount Carmel, had a profound influence on him, all the more so because his family moved to Montreal in 1953.
On its opening weekend in two theaters in New York, its screenwriter, Mark Boal -- now an Oscar winner -- stood on street corners with his teenage nephew handing out free tickets to passersby with the idea that if they could stack the house, perhaps the theater owners would book it for another week.
Then simply stack the houses, one on top of another.
