Sure enough, with dark wood walls, thatched overhangs and a formidable totem at the front desk, the Tonga Room has also been the site of more than a few clandestine canoodlings, some of which were immortalized by Herb Caen, the famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist, who trumpeted the room's happy hour and its famously strong mai tai.
In Pasadena and Los Angeles, their "ultimate bungalows," as Makinson called them, were built with dark shingled exteriors, high ceilings, long overhangs, sleeping porches, exposed beams, intricate woodwork, and leaded glass windows.
The brim protrudes over his forehead like an overhang, sometimes throwing his eyes, behind dark glasses, into shadow.
It is being said that the new entrance must be "welcoming," a strange assertion from an institution that came to prominence despite an entrance -- designed by Marcel Breuer -- that must surely be one of the most forbidding anywhere: a dark, narrow bridge across a deep trench under a looming overhang.
This isn't a dark, scary tunnel deep in the mountainside; it's merely a shallow overhang, big enough to keep the wind and rain at bay, but open enough to prevent any claustrophobia.
The show starts by placing a dark landscape of A Roman Road by Poussin, in which the trees overhang the road in an arch of dark green, in between two of a series of untitled "Green Paintings" on shaped wooden panels by Twombly from the 1980s, which closely match the French artist in their concentration on colour and Italian light.
* Watch the tax overhang.
Trim any overhang of pastry.
