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...million on a renovation that included specially padded chairs, ceiling panels, a padded back wall and triple-insulated glass between dining room and kitchen. "We worried it would be too loud," says Evans. "But you can talk softly when it's full." At another new Manhattan restaurant, Chinoiserie, architect Wid Chapman upholstered the ceiling and padded the back wall to mitigate the waterfall's rush and DJ's tunes. And at Azie, in San Francisco, architect Cass Calder Smith installed acoustical tiles below the ceiling and carpeting in the mezzanine...
...early evening near the end of reading period, I was crossing the yard from Emerson to Grays Hall when a woman passed me in the opposite direction en route to the T. (Perhaps an opening piece for "Women in Ancient Societies: An Illusion of the Night," WID-LC HQ1127.W63?) As I redirected her, she explained her disorientation. It's the Widener renovation, she said: it completely turns you around...
Here some of dey t'ings, doll, dey ain't got on dat men-you: Jumbalay', Crawfish Etouffe, Boudin, Red Beans and Rice, Pee-cohn Pie (wid plenny o'shoo-gar!), Shrimp Po' Boys, Dixie Beer, Catfish, Dirty Rice, Snappy-Gator Tail with Jolie Blon Beer, Potato Pirogue, Tasso, Pralines, and ol' Zydeco records. You know dee ones - Clifton Chenier. Zachary Richard. Rockin' Dopsie. All dem people...
Gumbo too thin. Gotsta be thick, like Elmer's Glue. And where de rice? It don' come wid rice? Mon Dieu! Not too spicy, eider. But we add tobasco. Plenty. Some like it hot. Some like it cold. Some like it in dey pot . . . Eh! Octav'! Don' lick deh spoon...
Rufus:"Hey buddy, whatsa matta wid your pal, de fancy pants ova dare? Whyzee limpin' funny-like...