There were no pictures on the walls and the glorious windows were defaced with beige nylon curtains.

"I didn't do it because of modesty," he said, gesturing toward the nylon curtain, which was lying over a body inside the machine like a sheet at a crime scene.

No diplomas clutter the walls of Dr. Volf's office, which is shabby, with nylon flowered curtains in the window and linoleum floors.

The reinforced nylon curtain will allow workers to take apart the scaffolding under safe conditions, a process that could take weeks.

In this epic battle of man against nature, nylon curtains have been erected to keep the dunes from swallowing up the road.

Yesterday evening, emergency workers were trying to install a heavy nylon curtain around the 700-foot-high scaffold on 43d Street and binding the broken elevator tower to the building.

"It circulates the heat from the stove," said Mr. Craig, 79, waving his hand at an apartment filled with his wife's doll collection and framed by pink nylon curtains.

Inside there are just a few faded armchairs, two sagging single beds pressed together in the bedroom, as well as pink nylon curtains, tobacco-colored floral wallpaper and flecked linoleum tile floors.

For small cichlids it is possible, for example, to use nylon net curtains as gravel tidies, but these would be no good when it comes to large cichlids as they tend to get hold of the soft material and pull it out of place.

After waiting nearly two more hours, Lynn Anne Lucas was led down a busy hall and placed in a cubicle separated from a larger room by stained nylon curtains.