1.   At the top of the Holiday Inn tower in Des Moines, a shabby room has been brightened with balloons.

2.   He sat in a shabby chair in a shabby room in the courthouse.

3.   In the shabby room that serves as a laboratory, the refrigerator was not working, a microscope was broken and so was the X-ray machine.

4.   On the third floor of the Hermitage, breathtaking Matisses, Cezannes and Picassos hang in shabby rooms.