Yet what is a goddess doing here, before these thin net curtains?
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"We put in what they call bomb-proof net curtains," Ashton Hill told Insider.
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For too long, death has been owned by funeral directors, hidden behind dusty net curtains and plastic flowers.
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It'd make the deadly bug of Alien: Isolation look like a frustrating fly caught in your net curtains.
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"The owners could lower their solar blinds," he said, or they could "install net curtains," the British term for sheers.
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Through the net curtains, out of the window and above the blocks of apartments, there is the sky and, beyond that, the sun.
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Paragraphs could be written on Lawson's curtains alone: cheap curtains, net curtains, curtains taped up—or else hanging from shower rings—curtains torn, faded, thin, permeable.
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As the Rhythm Method's music gets out further and further beyond the net curtains of Greater London's suburban sprawl, a conversion seems to be starting to occur.
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Essentially, you need a tune that the archetypal milkman of yore can hum as he chucks bottles of gold top at the twitching net curtains of a suburban terrace.
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"We knew who it was for, but it was very secret — we had net curtains up and cleaners were not allowed into the room and the code on the door was changed," Ewing said.
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Occasionally the chatter offers glimpses of the roiling, evolving country beyond the net curtains: "I'd say about a third of my mates are migrants, or second-generation," George, a 30-year-old from Essex, tells his surprised parents.
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The Tate administration has suggested that the residents can simply draw the blinds to avoid unwelcome eyes and a High Court judge, in ruling that the residents' impressive views come "at a price in terms of privacy", has suggested that they can always buy net curtains.
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After the first few weeks, most people stopped complaining and either started pining for long anticipated package holidays to Magaluf or Zante, or simply resigned themselves to the slow, sloppy death of their summer dreams May limped soggily into June, and June had limped soggily into July and the sun didn't even bother to poke it's head out of the net curtains.
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Their work is threaded through with fables told in the language of net curtains and three piece suites bought on finance; throwaway lines like Cocker's "Your name was Deborah / It never suited ya," and Heaton's "Think of you with pipe and slippers / Think of her in bed / Laying there just watching telly / Think of me instead," are alight with normality, domesticity, and desire, far preferable to anaemic half-declarations of love, loss or both.
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Britain, to me, is silent couples sat in central London branches of Burger King; rain-lashed walks down out of season promenades; Sunday night National Express coach journeys; Orange Wednesdays; Gillette Soccer Saturday; Mars Bars; Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2; brown settees; net curtains; dog shit; Traffic Cops; midnight mass on Christmas Eve; self-perpetuated mild melancholy; Adrian Mole; grain silos; conkers; rail replacement bus services; six cans for a fiver; sausage, chips and beans; Television X; National Trust property tea rooms; Dani Behr.
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A resident, Ian McFadyen, complained in court that "when our blinds are open and the viewing platform is in use, we are more or less constantly watched, waved at, photographed and filmed by people on the viewing platform," according to PA. However, Mann agreed with the Tate's argument that the remedy for the problem lay in the owners' own hands, ruling that they could "lower their solar blinds" or "install privacy film (or) net curtains," and dismissed the appeal against an earlier ruling by a lower court.
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Hand compared Judi Dench's outfit by the Indian designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla to net curtains, and Angelina Jolie's high necked, long-sleeved black Versace dress was still remembered in 2012 as a "Goth misery" that made her "a dead ringer for Morticia Addams".
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The cover for Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is from a photograph of McCartney strumming a guitar in his family's back yard in Liverpool, taken by brother Mike McCartney (aka Mike McGear) and originally entitled Paul Under Washing, before being retitled Our Kid Through Mum's Net Curtains.
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When used as curtain material, voile is similar to net curtains. Voiles are available in a range of patterns and colours. Because of their semitransparent quality, voile curtains are made using heading tape that is less easily noticeable through the fabric. Voile fabric is also used in dressmaking, either in multiple layers or laid over a second material.
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Despite the town and residents being seemingly pleasant, Emily is determined to flush out sin from behind the net curtains. Assisting Emily is her niece Alice Meredith (Patsy Rowlands). The programme was a repeat collaboration between Hird and the creator Dick Sharples, who had worked together on the comedy series In Loving Memory between 1979 and 1986. The series also featured guest appearances from the likes of Hird's Last of the Summer Wine co-star Michael Aldridge and television presenter Richard Whiteley.
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Another problem that damaged its reputation was rust. A 2008 retrospective article in The Independent said: "as soon as the US market had come to grips with the Dauphine's swing-axle manners and useless acceleration, they were pole-axed by its abysmal corrosion record. It would take only one New York winter of driving on salt-strewn roads to give a Dauphine front wings that resembled net curtains." Renault apologized for the Dauphine's flaws in American print advertisements, marketing its successor as "The Renault for people who swore they wouldn't buy another one".
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Awarding the song a rating of eight out of ten possible points, Dele Fadele of NME complimented it as "a cool duet" between Jay-Z and Beyoncé. John Robinson of the same publication wrote that as the couple describe their life, it's not all "Lexus and sipping Cris". He added, "A similarly relaxed production makes for a behind-the-diamante-net-curtains classic". Ethan Brown of New York magazine named "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" as a follow-up to the previous "Bonnie & Clyde Part II" by Jay-Z featuring rapper Foxy Brown.
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In a 1995 show with artist Yuk King Tan at Teststrip gallery in Auckland, O'Neill showed a work titled Mu'u Mu'u Mama: three long frilly dresses, like the ones Cooks Islands women make for special occasions, suspended in the windows overlooking the street. Art historian Priscilla Pitts writes that the dresses, crafted out of nylon net curtains, 'acted like domestic curtains filtering and transforming our view of the world. The works ... spoke specifically of the ways in which her own culture celebrates and adorns the bod, and highlighted traditions most of us are unaware of.' The Auckland Art Gallery acquired this work in 2011.
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" Claire Tomalin judged that "With fewer ponderous generalisations and more laughter this would have been an even better book: as it is, it deserves a place in the rich chronicles of the English petty bougeoisie of our century." There followed a break of some years, after which three further novels, none part of the Memoirs series, appeared. Behind the Net Curtains (1976) and The Little Medicine Bottle (1977) were more darkly comic in tone. Victoria Glendinning wrote of the two books, "Sexual passion is the theme, but so overlaid is it by conventions, reasonable behavior, ironing-boards and cups of tea, that violence and crudeness when they do surface have twice their normal impact.
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Formal summer bedding scheme in Victoria Park, Bath, Somerset. Most of the colour is provided by large-flowered begonias Plants used for summer bedding are generally annuals or tender perennials. They become available (often as what are referred to as "plug plants") in nurseries and garden centres during spring, to be gradually "hardened off" (acclimatised to outdoor conditions) by the purchaser and finally planted out around the time that the last frosts are expected. Experienced gardeners keep an eye on the weather forecasts at that time of year and are on standby to protect their bedding displays overnight with horticultural fleece (or the older alternatives of net curtains or newspaper) if frost threatens.
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Systematically, O takes each object or creature in the room and disables its ability to ‘see’ him: he closes the blind and pulls the net curtains across, he covers the mirror with the rug, the cat and dog (“a shy and uncooperative, little Chihuahua”Knowlson, J., Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), p 523) are – with some difficulty – ejected from the room and the picture is torn up. Although stated simply, the mechanics needed to execute these tasks are laborious (e.g., as he passes the window, he hides behind the blanket which he holds in front of himself to cover the mirror and he carries the cat and dog facing away from him as he tries to put them out the door). After all the above, he goes to sit in the chair.
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