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  • Mandela is slowly offered what the political office refers to as “bait” masked in kind treatment, days of freedom, and relocation from a closet-sized cell to a cozy house of lockdown.

    ENDGAME DVD Review – Collider.com 2010

  • In Cape Town on Thursday, Mrs. Obama and her family will ride a ferry to Robben Island for a moving visit to the closet-sized cell where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.

    Michelle Obama aiming to inspire African youth 2011

  • She agreed to selling our ranch-style three-bedroom in Lafayette, Louisiana and buying a trailer, a 10x50 New Moon with three bedrooms if you count the closet-sized room assigned to me as a bedroom (it was so narrow I had to pull my feet onto on my twin bed to open the dresser drawers).

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Another hotspot was Manfred's in the trendy Norrebro neighborhood, which just reopened last month after having expanded from its closet-sized space.

    Jill Fergus: Copenhagen Dining Beyond Noma Jill Fergus 2011

  • Easier to see the housing disparity, the gap between the closet-sized houses of the poor, and the house-sized closets of the rich.

    Fred Bernstein: America's Mega-Mansions and Micro-Cribs Grow Farther Apart Fred Bernstein 2011

  • She agreed to selling our ranch-style three-bedroom in Lafayette, Louisiana and buying a trailer, a 10x50 New Moon with three bedrooms if you count the closet-sized room assigned to me as a bedroom (it was so narrow I had to pull my feet onto on my twin bed to open the dresser drawers).

    Talking 'Bout 'Nauguration 2009

  • When I stepped into their closet-sized room – twin beds, one chair, one table – I was met by Kurt Cobain, singer- songwriter, guitarist, and David Grohl, the man of drums.

    In search of Nirvana 2011

  • In the upscale Polanco neighborhood on a recent afternoon, two maids surveyed fruits and vegetables at a closet-sized street-front stall before opting to buy apples at an adjacent Sumesa supermarket operated by Comercial Mexicana.

    Mexico City Retailers Pause Amy Guthrie 2011

  • In a closet-sized office within the section known as the Fifth Avenue Club, Ms. Ricotta, a personal shopper, runs what amounts to an exclusive boutique with some of fashion's most sought-after labels, from Haider Ackerman to Azzedine Alaïa .

    Inside a Department Store's Secret Shopping Service Christina Binkley 2011

  • Easier to see the housing disparity, the gap between the closet-sized houses of the poor, and the house-sized closets of the rich.

    Fred Bernstein: America's Mega-Mansions and Micro-Cribs Grow Farther Apart Fred Bernstein 2011

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