71. The American Embassy looks something like a prison, surrounded by high walls topped by long coils of razor wire and with soldiers camped in tents outside its entrance. 72. The high walls surrounding the compound were painted in a military-camouflage pattern. 73. The house, like most things worth seeing or knowing in Beijing, is concealed behind high walls. 74. The high walls and steep steps are not assertive images. 75. The pool area with high stone walls and glowing torchieres, sunlight streaming from a glass skylight and twin waterfalls? 76. The perimeter is protected by high white walls and forbidding black gates. 77. The refugees inhabit communities of mud hovels, some surrounded by high walls, that sprawl to the north and east of the city. 78. The political agent and his staff operate from a small fort of high thick stone walls. 79. The streets were mostly empty around the embassy, which is ringed by a high wall and a makeshift barricade of razor wire. 80. The rustic Russian idyll is marred only by the red brick castles encircled by high walls and security cameras just down the road. |