"The floor has been torn out from under the American people," he said.
"It doesn't help matters when the rug gets torn out from under you like this".
Your article ("Welcome to the old Kuwait", March 3rd) has been torn out from all copies of The Economist in Kuwait by censors of the Ministry of Information.
"There isn't a bourgeois corner to him," says Kureishi, who describes the house as "ugly and sterile, with a picture of Keith Richards, torn out from the paper, stuck on the kitchen wall".
"It was torn out from under us," she said, adding that her efforts to determine why it was taking so long to reopen the two rooms had been futile.
The twist, though, comes in the fact that the figure squats not on paper designed for watercolour but on a sheet torn out from a pre-ruled account book.
The sense of a world cruelly torn out from under one's feet was intensified when his mother sold the ranch Sam and his siblings had expected to inherit.
The door was open, and the room, in which Hankare was reclining on a bed reading a film magazine, was a burst of color — pink ceiling, flower-patterned floor tiles, pictures of celebrities torn out from newspapers on the walls.
Days after Witherspoon was pictured in the dress, the designer received a call from his buyer at Neiman Marcus, who said women were coming in requesting the look, showing representatives pictures of the dress they had torn out from various magazines.
She felt as if her world had just been torn out from under her.
