(The central panel of his curtain for "The Three-Cornered Hat," of 1919, hangs today in the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, still looking witty and elegant).
Mr. Thompson has conceived his set as a desecration-ready temple to words that includes a witty French lexicon of a drop curtain and a central set walled in books.
Only the central cubicle is left, its curtain rippling in anticipation, caught in the mysterious mounting gale.
Authenticity: There are times when you sweep back the curtain into Café Central in Vienna and hear every language in the world but German.
Yet the goal in those days always seemed to be a peek behind a musical curtain; even the central conflict between Rayna and Juliette (as the former began to feel usurped by the latter) had mostly to do with business rather than, say, a man.
Years of eating in the clubby, Victorian-inspired attraction — picture gas chandeliers, carved glass and English lace curtains in the central dining room — have taught me that much of the best food originates in the water: oysters, for sure, but also crab cakes, clams, teasingly spiced catfish and trout sheathed in a Parmesan crust.
I longed to be like my friends with their carpeted houses (this was long before the vogue for polished wooden floors), central heating and thick velvet curtains that shut the scary world out and made them feel safe, warm and cared for.
The rapid pace of change of the present day could also spell curtains for the central idea of the three cyberpunk books, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, the "consensual hallucination" of cyberspace.
The massive space is anchored by a wall of white curtains and a central "Chameleon Lamp"—a 360-degree media installation that lends the room a playful yet sophisticated edginess that feels mature...not silly.
He has drawn the curtain back on how central women are to a presidential campaign in which no women are actually running.
