I'd seen the young man earlier, standing around in the shadows outside.
He showed McCann a photograph of himself, years earlier, standing next to the car with Mrs. Shields.
Turns out the man, Christian Doswell, had been discovered by Mr. Obana several years earlier, standing outside a pizzeria, and had appeared in two N.Hoolywood shows.
But then I flashed to a memory of myself five years earlier, standing at a lectern and clearing my throat at the beginning of a drug-company presentation.
For reference, she showed Iannucci a photograph of himself, taken some months earlier, standing in front of that awning in the looming company of Reggie Love, who was then President Barack Obama's special assistant, or body man.
He wasn't merely on time for this interview: he was half an hour early, standing alone on the edge of the seaplane dock on the East River, at 23d Street, wearing a leather jacket over an off-white turtleneck.
"We don't have it in France," he had said a few weeks earlier, standing at the kitchen sink in his East Harlem apartment, scrubbing clams the size of hockey pucks.
But I managed to transform my sweet-potato purée into a carrot purée — there were young carrots in the garden — with molasses that someone had brought from New York years earlier standing in for the maple syrup, red peperoncini for the chipotles, and fresh cream from the dairy for the crème fraîche.
Your other great senator, Russ Feingold, was here with you earlier, standing with you and your families just like he always has, but he had to head to his hometown of Janesville to participate in their Labor Day parade.
She wants it delivered to a man, a former lover from what I can make out, the same man I saw earlier standing around on a rooftop, all alone yet completely unresponsive to my every attempt to interact with him.
