11. The museum is the front part of a still-existing convent of cloistered nuns, a stately whitewashed stucco building with display rooms lining an inner courtyard. 12. The scenery consists of cobblestone streets and white stucco buildings with red-tiled rooftops piled one atop the other against the lush green backdrop of the surrounding mountains. 13. The scenery, cobblestone streets and white stucco buildings with red-tiled rooftops piled one atop the other against the lush green backdrop of the surrounding mountains. 14. The underdeveloped legal system is summed up by a nondescript stucco building that fronts a narrow street east of the vast, magnificent Kremlin. 15. Weizman and Arafat settled themselves into white garden chairs on the back porch of the white stucco building, overlooking a pool and a neatly tended lawn. 16. Bloodstains in the bathroom where the shooting began had been painted over, and bullet holes in the stucco buildings had been patched. 17. City Hall -- a stucco building paid for with hazardous waste dumping fees -- is locked and virtually empty. 18. In a welcoming ceremony beneath deep blue skies, doves roosting atop a stucco government building swooped down on the Theatre plaza crowd of several hundred cheering Costa Ricans. 19. The Baath office is in a two-story stucco building behind black gates. 20. The Bank One branch is a handsome buff-colored stucco building. |
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