Forlornly, the prisoners, most of whom had been captured by chance in the streets, paced the linoleum of the hotel's bare rooms, where only the white lips of the basins and the bidets grinned, blocked with foul water.
Then eight men crossed the street, their pace quickening as they approached the smoking doorway.
Redstone made the move to court Wall Street, which pace the recent upturn in the share prices of News Corp. and the Walt Disney Co., has not been over-enamored with traditional media's attempts to come to terms with the media consumption of the iPod generation.
During the trip, a sea-going street preacher paced back and forth through the cabin, exhorting us, his captive audience, to turn our attention to a certain path-marking spiritual leader of a non-Buddhist persuasion.
Reviewer Gareth K. Vile of The Skinny gave the book three out of five stars, and commented, "By transplanting his thuggish noir from Manchester to LA, Ray Banks' second Cal Innes novel has two sets of mean streets to pace.
Some people grew to cherish their street's sleepy pace.
Founded in 2008, J Street is on pace to set a fund-raising record this election.
As a result of the street clashes, the pace of the Russian advance has slowed, some Russian officials acknowledged.
However, the fact that the Treasury is willing to countenance setting up a new state-backed institution to lend to businesses suggests there remains deep anxiety in Downing Street about the pace of business lending.
We headed off the next morning, my son guiding me down our street at walking pace and with an expression of helpless foreboding, like a ground-crew technician doing his best with a 747 piloted by dogs.
At night, though, the streets empty, the pace slows.
