Everyone lived in tiny rooms in concrete blocks, utterly disconnected from each other.
Their destination was Orchard Beach, a sliver of sand amid lush tidal marshes and woodlands, a place utterly foreign to the concrete confines where he grew up.
After the war, the communists decided to exploit a huge coalmine underneath it, swelling the population to 70,000 housed in block after block of hideous high-rise concrete hulks, utterly devoid of a sense of community.Back in 1991, the town gained a grim national notoriety for nastiness when a gang of racist thugs besieged an immigrants' hostel.
Off North May Avenue is a Bank of America branch made of modernistic arches, cables and parabolic concrete, a building utterly resistant to any attempt at classification.
However, given that the financial climate is reminiscent of concrete – tough, grey and utterly depressing – helping confused consumers make decisions could be a useful selling point.
To your left, there's mile after mile of utterly deserted beach, save for the ubiquitous concrete bunkers Enver Hodza had built to repel all-comers.
After time, the group assumes all roles -- family, friends, church, home, work, community, and departing, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, after years or even decades, without having a concrete safety net is challenging, and sometimes utterly impossible.
If any facet of Michael and Jim's relationship is concrete, it is that the relationship is undefined and utterly without label.
