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...longest for any after-theater show in town; it is a place so perfectly preserved in décor and atmosphere that one half expects Fred and Ginger to come tripping down the curving, chrome-railed stairways. The Grill, which long played second sax to the Room, became a supper club in 1965. Its windows were doubled in size and the floor raised 18 in. to pull the skyline into the room. It was modestly successful for 14 years, bringing in such performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. But topflight nonrock talent became increasingly hard...
...launched into his "dream paintings." These were derived partly from his fascination with his new surrealist friends in Paris, Breton and Eluard, and their talk of dream imagery, free association, irrational juxtaposition. And partly from plain hunger. As Miró explains, "Sometimes I hadn't had any supper. I saw things ... I saw shapes in the chinks in the walls and shapes on the ceiling." Typical of this period is Carnival of Harlequin, 1924-25, which squirms with a profusion of shapes-a black, writhing snake with a huge white-gloved hand where its head should be; a startled...
...somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...
...invites her to stay for supper, only to learn from Enid that they have nothing to serve but frozen succotash. Next comes Harry, a blond, muscular lout, eagerly accepting the invitation that Ramona has relayed. Earl is abashed and thus vulnerable to Harry's demand for money (to buy takeout food) keys (Harry claims that his own car has a broken fuel pump...
...more graceful in defeat than he had been during the chase. Connally and Nellie drove to Houston's River Oaks Country Club for a late supper. As they entered the dark grill room, the home folks' heads turned in recognition. And suddenly, as a group, they stood at their seats and applauded...