Men and women in their 20s, students or recent graduates, come and go in apartments and cafes, speaking of love and work and grocery shopping.
Then, last week, Schlossberg was caught on video freaking out at staff and customers at a cafe for speaking Spanish, when, in his opinion, "they should be speaking English".
During a recent lunch in a trendy SoHo cafe Mr. Carpenter spoke of attempts to promote the organ, then dismissed them.
A well-dressed, well-groomed woman takes a table at a sidewalk cafe and speaks to the waitress, slowly, searching for exactly the right words: "I'd like something -- something warm but yet quite inviting.
Sitting in the museum's outdoor cafe, he spoke about how Mr. Yang's films resist the overwhelming consumerism of his country — maybe using the old tale of the Seven Sages to stand for a withdrawal from consumer culture as well as for the "radical disenchantment with the real" of his generation, as one scholar has put it.
She engages in casual sex, owns her own cafe, and speaks her mind without censorship or hesitation ― qualities which would not be possible without the tireless work of the feminist camp.
Instead sit in the cafe and speak to the friend there.
"I liked the way the shirt was clinging to his chest," said Veronica Matthews, assistant manager of the Lido Cafe in Hyde Park, speaking of the statue, which greeted her as she arrived at work on Monday.
I sat at cafes sipping Pernod and speaking French.
Over breakfast at a cafe in NoLIta recently Mr. Ayoade, speaking with what proved to be characteristic humility, confessed that he was taken aback by Mr. Weinstein's belief in his work: "I still feel strange calling him Harvey".
According to a recent report in Le Temps, a French-language newspaper, there have been 111 self-inflicted deaths since January, 69 of them by self-immolation and 58 by people aged 15 to 25. "A young man I knew threw himself from a building," said Ahmed Cherih, speaking outside a cafe in Sidi Bouzid.
