Lee's originality, as well as his modernism, lies in his translation of the free-form poetry of popular speech into script, performance, and images; his characters unleash a dazzling flow of patter that enlivens even dire circumstances, and the d.j. of the local storefront radio station (Samuel L. Jackson) looks out the window and chronicles street life in real time.
And on the day of his assassination an anonymous diarist filled a remarkable book with drawings of the texts, signs and banners he saw posted in New York's storefronts, fire stations and homes (a touch screen allows you to leaf through the book): "Such a death saddens even victory," reads one.
The Chambers Street storefront replaced a recruiting station on the seventh floor of 290 Broadway, a government office building.
Ricot Dupuy, the manager of Radio Soleil, a Creole-language station with storefront offices on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, said that suggestions of changing sentiment in Washington seemed to have calmed Haitians in New York.
Storefronts and subway stations were plastered with signs.
"They were in movie houses, storefronts, bookstores, train stations, wherever people congregated".
Hopper's approach, which appealed to his colleagues from all factions, explored natural and artificial light on surfaces, particularly on the vernacular architecture of American cities: motels, gas stations, storefronts, diners, apartments.
I recently visited some Latin American countries that mesh with the N.R.A.'s vision of the promised land, where guards with guns grace every office lobby, storefront, A.T.M., restaurant and gas station.
Customers came to their Parex storefront at Riga's railway station from as far away as Siberia.
They have a neighborhood police office, a mini-station in a storefront.
