Inside, the designers succeeded in replacing fashion-victim style with usable space.
Of the 40 or so who volunteered, she said, only a few followed through with usable observations.
In addition to the standard rooms, there are larger rooms called junior suites and, on the 18th floor, rooms with usable balconies overlooking 51st Street.
The ability to come up with usable lyrics on any subject at lightning speed was one of Mr. Cahn's great skills.
Speaking from experience, Mr. Mecum added, "If you want to have a car with usable performance, pick something newer than a 1960 and get radial tires for it".
Pascal and his parents all had cell phones now, and kept them charged and filled with usable minutes, waiting for him.
In realiation, the developers, Mountain Hill Group, are suing Middletown over one ordinance that requires builders to meet at least half of their open space obligations with "usable land," not including such things as detention basins, parking medians and wetlands.
Many of the first stars to emerge from Eindhoven, including Marcel Wanders, were connected to the whimsical Droog Design, a collective that broke into the international scene in 1997 with usable products tweaked with wit -- for example, a rubbery sink.
Already-cooked vegetables are the key to a refrigerator filled with usable, tamed ingredients that can immediately be turned into other dishes: pasta sauces, pizza toppings and composed salads, to name just a few.
But Michael Schweikardt, the set designer for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," has created an airy street of mini-mansions, each seemingly two stories high, with usable second-floor balconies.
This class is often dismissed as being a bunch of "soft roaders" or "faux x fours", but Jeep seems to have missed the group email and blessed its new model with usable off-road ability and the top of the range Trailhawk has been specially engineered to take on genuinely challenging trails.
