Instead of sand and the frothy ocean, Hockney painted quiet, slightly vacant-looking scenes of turquoise swimming pools in private backyards.
They happened to arrive at Holsten's when booth B-3, where the Sopranos sat during the last scene, was vacant.
His constant subjects were enunciated then: densely packed industrial scenes have vacant semi-pastoral landscapes as counterparts.
After state police investigators arrived at the shooting scene in a vacant lot in North Charleston on Saturday, they encountered "inconsistencies including what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds in Mr. Scott's back," Keel said in the release.
On a cloudless early afternoon Wednesday, as word spread of video of a suspect, the finishing area of the marathon remained eerily quiet and vacant, cordoned off by crime-scene tape and metal barricades and the presence of police officers.
Then the cameras moved to a vacant wing upstairs for a tense scene in what was supposed to be a prison-infirmary room.
The garrulous TV screens inside the train and on the platforms no longer annoyed me; I was transfixed by the scenes on view out the windows — vacant parking lots, children bent over homework in tiny apartments.
Around the victim's home, near the corner of Bergen and Dwight streets, police had set up a crime scene investigation perimeter in a vacant lot between adjoining row houses.
Once stark and fearsomely vacant, the area is now a thriving singles scene.
A cluster of people appeared outside the Labor Department this afternoon, an odd scene because the sidewalks were otherwise vacant.
