backstairs

• “The road to eminence lay by the "backstairs," the atmosphere of which he could not endure.”

  The Ship of Fools, Volume 1

• “In it, Bearden alternates between the commotion of Harlem -- street cars and barbershops, friends congregating on the corner -- and our quietest possible moments on earth -- through one of the building's windows, a couple makes love; through another, a man sits by himself on the backstairs.”

  The Huffington Post: Bobby Elliott: New York's Centennial Celebration of Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988)

• “The walls of the backstairs and restrooms are also covered in kits.”

  The Washington Post: Charleston's Three Lions Pub: a soccer highlight in America's lowcountry

• “We crept up the backstairs in our nightclothes, trailed by the sleepy dogs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “Now, this will all be cleared up soon, but Mrs. Chiffinch misses you and wonders if we could sneak you in for a quiet supper in the backstairs with us.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “Will this happen or will the IMF job be subject to the usual mix of carve up, power politics and backstairs intrigue?”

  The Guardian: Gordon Brown and the IMF deserve better than this shabby treatment

• ““Hitler came to office in 1933 as the result, not of any irresistible revolutionary or national movement sweeping him into power, nor even of a popular victory at the polls, but as part of a shoddy political deal with the ‘Old Gang’ whom he had been attacking for months… Hitler did not seize power; he was jobbed into office by a backstairs intrigue”…”

  The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?

• “I said I'd swim in blood first, so two minutes later I was being escorted down the backstairs by two of his stalwarts, standing on my dignity and doing what I was bid, in the sure knowledge that I was on a sound wicket, and the longer they held and hindered me, the more crow they'd have to eat in the long run.”

  Fictionaut: THE NUMBERS

• “The General Assembly adopted the partition resolution 181 (after extraordinary backstairs blackmail and with a "majority" that reflected representation of much less than half of the world's population).”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “A short while later, after I had dragged him around my apartment, taking him even on my backstairs so the neighbors could see, so that even the sky might know that I had won, I told him who I was as he lay under me in my bathtub, shiny from what we'd done.”

  Fictionaut: 13 Crimes Against Love, or, the Crow's Confession

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