Word: foyer
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Packs of undergraduates slurp their Scorpion Bowls, while townies in the next booth dig into plates of chow mein and sweet and sour fish. A burly Cambridge police officer lingers by the door as an even burlier bouncer blocks the main entrance, scrutinizing questionable ID holograms under dim yellowish foyer lighting. Keeping a vigilant eye on all aspects of food and bar service, owner Paul Lee slips with discreet authority from the main-floor restaurant to the bar and dance floor on the upper levels. The raucous laughter of drunken college students and the thumping rhythms of Beyoncé form...
...Charley have the right to graze their herd on land claimed by the rich guy. And there's a lovely interlude with Charley and the spinster, where the cowboy has to recall gentlemanly codes of conduct (picking up clods of earth that his boots have left on her foyer carpet) and learn again how to make his heart soft for her while keeping it hard for the inevitable shootout in town...
Wednesday night the president was challenged again. Visiting the U.S. ambassador's home for a dinner with African and American business leaders, the President and his wife were greeted in the foyer by a stairway full of African female singers. After shaking the hand of the lead singer, the president escalated through a range of embarrassing expressions as the women moved and swayed in the full arc of their womanhood. The performance ended with the singers pulling their shirts to two points at the breast...
...Stevens the First," he writes in his new memoir, Dry (St. Martin's; 293 pages). "When he'd come home from work, Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer...and say, 'Better make it a double.'" Burroughs would uncap one of his father's liquor bottles, upend it with his hand pressed over the top, then recap it and lick his palm...
...Clarkson accompanied Spector to his car to drive off to his $1.1 million castle-like mansion in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra. Less than three hours later, she was dead, shot in the head, her body lying in a pool of blood in his castle's foyer, a cavernous, wood-paneled, red-carpeted hallway with two suits of medieval armor standing sentry. Spector's driver called the police, who arrived in minutes. The producer's attorney, Robert Shapiro, of O.J. Simpson fame, declined to comment on the case. Charged with murder, Spector was released on $1 million bail...