The red-upholstered chairs were moved out, replaced by stacks of boxes.

Others got first editions by Ezra Pound and stacks of art books.

There they settled, screened by stacks of buckets needing repair.

"I can learn more walking through a factory for 45 minutes than by reading stacks of documents," he often boasts.

The door opened on a lobby, brightly lighted but broken into aisles by stacks of hardboard boxes.

Young men wait by stacks of black inner tubes, ready to rent them out.

He was standing by stacks of small drawers.

The world is going to change," Mr. Shapiro said, surrounded by stacks of sneakers and hiking boots.

It reminded me of when I was a social worker and saw people living totally surrounded by stacks of newspapers.

My friend John Guare has a chaise in his study utterly surrounded by stacks of books.