Mary Dejevsky, The Independent, 2010 Let Jimmy Carr's hypocrisy be a timely lesson to the Chancellor, Matthew Norman, The Independent, 2012 How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes, Charles Duhigg, The New York Times, 2012 1696 – Windows are bricked up to avoid the window tax.
"He achieved just the kind of feeling I'm after - he makes the viewers feel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up, so that all they can do is butt their heads for ever against the wall".
Fifteen miles east of Grozny, in the town of Argun, Mayor Movsar Temirbayev lives in a large house that looks like a fortress: the windows are bricked up, a concrete pillbox with a machine gunner inside stands in front of the gate and the street approaches are blocked with concrete barriers.
"I hope to ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room," he gloated, with paintings that will make those rich bastards "feel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up".
After the fire in 1976, vandals caused additional damage that resulted in the windows being bricked up and a steel door installed.
There are still some buildings standing, but most of their doors and windows are bricked up, ready to be destroyed the fluorescent orange uniforms of the demolition crew acting as the only splash of color among all the sad grays and browns.
There are still some buildings standing, but most of their doors and windows are bricked up, ready to be destroyed – the fluorescent orange uniforms of the demolition crew acting as the only splash of colour among all the sad greys and browns.
The arched windows were bricked-up a quarter of a century ago, and the corrugated steel sheeting on the ceiling has rusted.
