Children crammed both floors, their presence masking the shabbiness of the furniture and filling the empty spaces on the yellowed walls.
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In 1966, University officials proposed renovations to reverse the " shabbiness " and deterioration seen in older buildings such as Blackstone.
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My last tour 10 years ago, conducted by an inebriated caretaker and his dog, revealed the intimacy and betrayed an accrued shabbiness.
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Mary speaks of her frustration with their summer home, its impermanence and shabbiness, and her husband's indifference to his surroundings.
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"Pauline clearly longed to escape the shabbiness and domestic work of the boardinghouse her mother ran, " said Eldred-Griggs.
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Now the grand old establishment on 125th Street is suffering from an external shabbiness that apparently reflects deeper problems with the theater's politically prominent management.
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But style critics like Levy overlook an important aspect of professional shabbiness of attire : It has become a part of the scientist's public persona.
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Foremost among the new projects is one that targets Broadway, a deteriorated but busy shopping street bordering the campus and plagued by traffic congestion and rampant shabbiness.
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In my mind, I was able to divorce myself from the shabbiness of his existence while keeping the music as pure and decent and humble as it is.
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Between those poles lie Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, their economies improving but their cities still showing the shabbiness that set in during a half-century of Soviet rule.
