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Nothing much happens in the empty mansion, but when something does--for instance, a thunderous pounding on a pair of big doors, as if all the characters' accumulated nervous energies had been focused on one spot--the movie's reticence pays off like gangbusters (or ghostbusters).
In some cases, with the auto industry being the best example, commoditization has been fended off by the enormous capital investment required to enter the business.
He laid his head on Zercher's shoulder, asked her to talk about herself and, for 40 minutes, on and off, rubbed the side of her left breast.
, free parking, porters to carry one's luggage, B-girls, hookers, house detectives) and on further restrictions (there are few hotels in large cities that make “washrooms freely available” even to hotel guests outside their rooms, lest some wretch needing to use the facility wander in off the street); but would anyone insist that the presence of shops be restrictively incorporated in the definition of hotel ?; would a native speaker of English refer to restaurants and other public rooms as “compartments for eating, drinking, dancing,” etc.?
Even materials marked for "single use" are reprocessed, sometimes with horrific results--a reprocessed cardiac catheter, for example, broke off in a patient's heart during treatment.