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...last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going to the opera." In the Paris Opera, Gamier enshrined that ritual. "How large should the foyer be?" he enquired in a book, Le Theatre, written four years before the Opera opened in 1875. "To answer this question we must study how people promenade ..." What person, trapped in our landscape of grids, would not feel a secret nostalgia at those considerate words...
...fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power to the peephole!" the Rev. Marshfield exults after describing a session of spying on his curate and his mistress of the moment...
Even a Chamber accustomed to emotional oratory had rarely heard such rhetoric. Former Conservative Justice Minister Jean Foyer warned the French National Assembly of "the bodies of children piling up in slaughterhouses...
During the afternoon, gardeners were still dumping topsoil. The whine of vacuum cleaners sounded in the foyer. Along the lobby, leatherette ottomans were being bounced into place to the cacophonous accompaniment of electric drills. "We have only five hours to go," said President Donald L. Engle of the Minnesota Orchestral Association, surveying the mess. "But I tell you this-we'll be ready...
Following dinner, there was dancing in the Grand Foyer to the music of the Marine Dance Combo. Ford enlivened the party by frugging to the tune of Proud Mary, a rock hit of 1969. That night the Rockefellers became Ford's first overnight guests in the White House. Mrs. Ford offered them a choice of two bedrooms-the Lincoln bedroom and the Queen's bedroom, where visiting royalty have stayed. The Rockefellers chose the century-old, 8-ft.-long rosewood bed in the Lincoln Room...