Pishevar's thinking is that such an app would vastly reduce the number of times a jumpy police officer ends up standing at a window with a gun pointed at the driver's face.
The living room lights were turned off; so was the small air-conditioner propped up at a barred window on a hot day.
In minor roles, the actors loom up at a saloon window or sit heavily on horseback, and each anonymous face, carved by terrible food, rotten liquor, and bad sex, makes an overwhelming impression of loneliness and discomfort.
Dressed in T-shirts and plumbers' coveralls, they lined up at a small window, fetching half-liters of Vendelin, a honey-colored lager, as if it were liquid gold, even though the price of 15 koruna (roughly $.70) was only about half the usual rate for a Czech beer.
To this day, when I turn on the television and find a Chinese drama, I wonder whether I will glimpse some hapless mustachioed foreigner, gazing up at an apartment window with ominous intent.
"The entire building is lit by one chandelier!" a man said on a recent evening, looking up at a lone lighted window.
I tried to picture it, gazing up at a sun-dappled window, but could only imagine their friend Paltrow, whose Roman & Williams-designed loft was somewhere nearby, and who was doing an interview in a high-end lighting boutique across the street.
Customers place their order on the brand's app and pick it up at a drive-thru window at a time most convenient for them.
You glance up at a third-floor window over a drug store where shadows play against a drawn blind.
