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By 1972, the 2 million-square-foot 1515 Broadway, with its conciliatory Minskoff Theater, stood in the Astor's place-a 54-story ode to moneymaking that would have done Rand proud.
Mogul Request Live 2010
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The apartment was a blank, impersonal place-a pair of rooms, with the bed occupying a sunken place in the first.
The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010
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Before coming here, if asked, he would have imagined the offices occupied by the Homicide Division of the San Francisco Police Department as an ugly, dreary place-a dirty, stained floor-battered, torn furniture-inhabited by dim, lumbering men engaged in squalid combat with an even drearier bunch of alleged murderers.
The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010
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Her stories are usually set in one place-a kitchen, a hospital room, up a tree-and have the kind of texture that might play onstage.
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It is so much better to be able to run away from all that and to go to a much better place-a new hope, a new high, a new fantasy, that actually entails very little responsibility and can be dropped whenever we want.
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Besides, Moose got a bargain on the place-a third the price of similar city homes.
Hail To The Chief 2008
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In their place-a world of fire, fire which not only did not burn her, but which, when it touched her, felt like a cool caress.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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The fashionable East Village couple purchased the place-a six-room apartment with hardwood floors, a windowed kitchen, a built-in washer/dryer and south, east and west exposures-in a nearly all-cash deal.
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Stirring Symbols Hide An Unbearable Reality A year ago, a monstrous act of mass murder took place-a crime whose effects and repercussions, no matter what happens in the future, will continue to prey on us for the rest of our natural lives.
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Baldacci's eloquent use of language in Wish You Well transforms readers to another time and place-a time when America 's agrarian existence was beginning to transform into industrialization and a place where the land was the heart and soul of the community.
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