It was certainly good enough for a lazy summer evening on the bench, the kind of story to be retold there for who knows how long.
He just sat on the bench, a kind of mirror, reflecting back to the players their own quiescence, daring them to find a way out of their torpor.
"I didn't know that I had that type of quarter until I sat down on the bench and kind of let it sink in," he said of scoring 30 points in the third quarter.
The station was known as the "writers' bench," a kind of subterranean salon, and Mr. Felisbret wanted to bring it back to life so that contemporary graffiti writers could get a sense of the culture's history.
Now the shirt's off too, and a naked youth – vulnerably slight, a figure lingering somewhere between boy and man – is, with an air of complete self-containment, walking towards a bench, the kind you might see on a suburban train platform.
The show began with the audience seated on cube benches, the kind installed in galleries for watching video art installations, surrounding a raised circular stage.
Many of the bewildered workers slept on park benches; a kind Acuña woman let the Esquivels sleep on her floor, Mr. Esquivel said.
Yet the interior has the feel of an informal seafood shack with large harbor lights hung above the bar and slatted picnic chairs and benches, the kind you might find outdoors at a roadside spot.
"She was just wearing me out, telling me to get back to the bench, all kinds of stuff," he recalls.
Sedgwick Avenue terminal of the Putnam division of the N.Y.C.R.R. is refurbished and new benches like park benches installed-the kind with arms.
