The serpentine first-floor bar ends beside an ingenious vertical rotisserie with circulating spokes, allowing pieces of fish to be cooked the way Native Americans prepared them in the past.
It's a poised, self-conscious film that begins with a pre-credit sequence set around a snow-covered lake in Dalarna, the Swedish province where the painted wooden horses come from, and ends beside an idyllic stream in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy.
Stop where the path ends, beside a covered reservoir and above a waterfall that you can hear in the canyon below.
PALMAR ARRIBA, Dominican Republic, Dec. 4 — Drive along the dusty, pothole-filled road, careful not to strike the roosters or stray dogs, until it dead-ends beside a stone staircase.
Two enormous tanks, filled with carbon dioxide, stand on end beside them.
Critzer sat at a short end of the table chatting, the coaches at the long end beside her, Harding leaning toward her on an elbow, Hobson fingering his beard.
The ball machine is positioned at one end of the studio, the end that has portraits of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hanging on the wall, and the batter takes their stance at the other end, beside bins rammed with vintage bats.
Gerald worked out the story line and painted a stunning curtain, which was a parody of the Hearst newspapers of the day, with an ocean liner standing on end beside the Woolworth Building; across the top ran a gigantic headline reading, "UNKNOWN BANKER BUYS ATLANTIC".
This is what I think of as auto-gothic, and whether Laura Albert (if she was, indeed, the guilty party) meant it as a parody of fashionable angst or whether LeRoy's prose really was the best that she could muster is, in the end, beside the point.
The race in question began and ended beside the heavily fortified appendix protruding from the junction joining two of Brazil's most famous beaches, the Copacabana and Praia de Ipanema, where a 144-strong field convened to slug it out over 237.5 kilometres in an eagerly anticipated one-day race that never disappointed.
It's a mark of Salerno and Shields' achievement, however, that this seems in the end beside the point.
