A picnic table takes up half the room; drinks and food are ordered from a back counter.
Half the room apparently hoped the study would show rampant drug use while the other half got what it expected.
It's a brick-and-stone-walled basement club, capacity 72, with a bar occupying half the room and a barely raised stage where three's a crowd.
Soon, half the room was happily crowned in yellow plastic, with Chilean pride decals that said things like "esperanza," or hope, and "33".
A. O. SCOTT Well, sure, but it also felt as if half the room was enjoying watching the other half squirm.
Half the room sat silently, but half stood and cheered, including the entire Kennedy family, which was what mattered to Hope (1950).
Or that syndrome when one person leaves a boring meeting to go to the loo, and then half the room discover they need to go, too.
Half the room is dedicated to Armstrong, with shelves full of books and CDs, and the other half to toddlerhood, with stacks of plastic toys and tiny chairs and tables.
Besides books in English and Chinese, there are a couple of inexpensive vinyl-covered couches, and, most notably, there is a Ping-Pong table that takes up half the room.
When in San Francisco, my ultra-high rent includes such amenities as wall-to-wall carpeting, many thousands of stairs, a closet that eats up half the room, and why, yes, a bay window for charm.
