We just carry on in Yorkshire... pic.twitter.com/9cdBsVJIzz Shocking rush hour scenes at Kings Cross this morning #tubestrike (with thanks @davidlberesford) pic.twitter.com/w911cuubNR Bit busy today at Victoria station.
Even the small metal lawn chairs mimic those in Parisian parks and lend a refinement to the lunch-hour scene.
"There's a dichotomy between living a quiet, slow life and going up to this borderline chaotic, 24-hour scene," he said.
Played almost entirely with Mr. Pullman and Ms. Ruehl alone onstage, the half-hour scene ranges from broad comedy (there are several bestiality jokes) to tender moments to flashes of violence (Ms. Ruehl smashes a vase or three).
WHAT makes Bar Rosso, a clubby cafe in downtown Stamford, such a magnet for those under 40 is partly its location: half a block from the lively outdoor happy-hour scene on Bedford Street across from the Avon Theater Film Center.
She escapes and meets Gilles at a rave-like party at an abandoned country house, and the ensuing half-hour scene, a complex and fantastical sequence of running, dancing and pillaging lighted by leaping bonfires and set to English-language pop songs — "Me and Bobby McGee," "Knocking on Heaven's Door" — is the best-known thing about the movie, and perhaps a little overrated.
And few know its allure better than Mr. Greene, who in 2003 was tagged by Vanity Fair as a major player in the Los Angeles after-hours scene.
Roger Straus, the president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, who has missed only one year since he started coming to Frankfurt in 1961, spoke enthusiastically of the after-hours scene.
Far from cleaning up the city's image, the social order campaign has spawned a sordid and unregulated after-hours scene that unfolds on steamy sidewalks and dark alleys behind second-story black-curtained windows.
This was the week's culminating wee-hours scene: Mr. Cooper rushing through the mob, past the Democratic money maven Orin Kramer, who stood a few feet from where the actress Eva Longoria had just breezed through, and where Senator John Kerry, who himself had just finished a big speech, was now ducking into the lobby men's room.
