In those hot days, my mother moved slowly around the house, drinking iced coffee, smoking, reading.
In the days preceding the 24th it seemed that women everywhere were grouping together, drinking coffee, smoking incessantly but doing a lot of agitated talking.
So I shivered in a cold-water flat in Montmartre and spent my time eking out coffee, smoking Gitanes and talking to everyone and anyone in any language we could muster.
"Where the heck is that dustpan?" said the witch, Lady Rhea, 60, a Wiccan high priestess who was pulling off a nearly magical level of multitasking: drinking coffee, smoking thin Capri cigarettes and conducting a phone conversation while sweeping.
To indulge in such "simultaneous consumption", he wrote, a chap "may find himself drinking Brazilian coffee, smoking a Dutch cigar, sipping a French cognac, reading the New York Times, listening to a Brandenburg Concerto and entertaining his Swedish wife all at the same time, with varying degrees of success".
Yes, he was a dedicated journalist, a self-defined feminist and a man who believed that corporate self-dealing tore at the social contract — he was also, as Gabrielsson points out, "constantly drinking coffee, smoking and working like a fiend, but the resemblance basically stops there".
When taking the correlation between the coffee and smoking groups into account, the power is reduced to 87% when smoking is adjusted for.
Men sat in plastic chairs, drinking coffee and smoking apple-flavored tobacco from elegant water pipes.
Further along is Café Ezzitouna, where groups of men sit drinking coffee or smoking shisha.
No food, coffee or smoking is allowed anywhere near the site.
