Eighteen waiters, five service assistants and five runners continually scamper past, serving 500 to 550 dinners on a Saturday night.
It is difficult to concentrate with lorries continually going past, and when people are stone-cutting, you get covered in dust.
WASHINGTON — Dance, the art of the uncapturable present tense, continually loses its past.
From Algeria, Merzak Allouache's El taaib (The Repentant) told an emotionally resonant story of religious fanaticism, tangled lives, and a past continually alive.
But the film is more than an affectionate study of childhood stubbornness; beneath its apparently sentimental surface is a corrosive study of a society closed in upon itself, drained of freedom and cursed to continually relive the past.
In those first few days at my brother's house, the double vision from which we suffered — of the present overlaid on a past continually bleeding through — kept us from seeing the future.
The new regime has had a noticeable impact on the side's performances, but by continually raising the past Roos risks coming across like a politician who ritually blames the previous government for what he himself cannot control.
The past continually forces its way into the present in "The Secret in Their Eyes," an attractive, messy drama riddled with violence and edged with comedy that comes with a hint of Grand Guignol, a suggestion of politics and three resonant, deeply appealing performances.
There are the formally innovative novels of writers like Perec, Bernhard and Sebald, works written in the shadow of the Holocaust that take as their subjects memory, absence, how we perceive history and how our lives are continually reshaped by past events.
"The past continually forces its way into the present in 'The Secret in Their Eyes,' an attractive, messy drama riddled with violence and edged with comedy that comes with a hint of Grand Guignol, a suggestion of politics and three resonant, deeply appealing performances," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in May.
