Bozic at sixty-one, shadowboxing in front of a floor-to-ceiling mirror at the Church Street Boxing Gym, in lower Manhattan, on a recent weekday morning.
The faces of visitors glow with the reflections of digital screens, as they snap photos of each other standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling wall of water.
"These college kids would run around court-to-court, radioing in the scores to a guy in player operations who stood in front of a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard," Broder said.
In gambling court, where Justice Farrell presides in front of a floor-to-ceiling mural that includes the American flag and a bald eagle, the numbers are smaller, but the stories are similar.
"Those dresses are quite difficult to take care of," she said on a visit to the museum one morning in July, pausing in front of a floor-length long-sleeved gown with a ruffled skirt covered entirely with pheasant feathers — thousands of them, overlapping one another like fluffy, russet-colored chain mail.
Martin Snow is shadowboxing in front of a floor-to-ceiling mirror teaching a new student, for what must be the thousandth time in his life, how to throw a jab.
One hung in front of a floor-to-ceiling picture window that opened directly onto the jungle and, beyond, the turquoise ocean.
My guess is that setwalking is a direct result of the one thing that dehumanizes every TV newscast - research - those people at the mall who get paid twenty bucks to say how much they like Alicia Anchorwoman being dwarfed in front of a floor-to-ceiling monitor wall while talking about a school board meeting.
As Maxi pranced across the small, intimate stage at B.B. King's, in front of a dance floor filled with swaying bodies moving to his tunes, the culmination of his musical evolution was on view.
