By night, however, passers-by are often startled by the merrily demented light show emanating from the curtainless ground-floor windows, creating the impression that the house is throbbing with pleasure.
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As the music faded and the embers of the burning ropes of the " ship " died down, the sodden and exhausted-looking performers lined up in the middle of the square for their curtainless call.
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The English designer John Stefanidis took a similar tack in a historic house in Providence, R . I ., that is featured in the April issue of Architectural Digest : curtainless windows _ all the better, he explained, to showcase the bold neo-Classical details.
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Overwhelmed by the choices ( multiple rooms, multiple possibilities ) and confounded by a difficult living room ( not enough wall space, not enough seating, pocket doors, French doors, lots of toys ), I sat on my poorly situated sofa ( too close to the curtainless windows, too far from the coffee table ) and froze.
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They are the struggles of self-definition, of individual freedom, of disappointed expectations, of the impossibility of communication, of separation and loss brought about by the inevitable passages of marriage and death . " Bock suggests that Ozu s wish to portray the life cycle affected his decisions on technical matters, such as the construction and use of the sets of his films . " In employing the set like a curtainless stage Ozu allows for implication of transitoriness in the human condition.
