THE afternoon light wafting in from the terrace of the Central Park West duplex they shared (they were married in 1960 in an apartment downstairs) bounces off the jazzy, merlot-hued eyeglasses she wears "for cosmetic purposes" and lights up her gold jewelry.
Traffic on avenues without functioning stop lights wafted along as though under hypnosis; on adjacent avenues with working lights, trucks jockeyed and honked.
OUTDOORS, on the five and a half acres surrounding the inn, a light breeze wafted through the 20 varieties of fruit trees that had produced most of the food on our plates.
She got out a sage stick and some palo santo and lit them, wafting the smoke around my head.
Hours earlier, as the scent of lighter fluid wafted over the parking lot's tailgaters before the first pitch, Jason Kish, 37, had blessed Opening Day's promise of a "fresh start".
And although decades have passed, I can still see him pulling on his boots, shuffling a deck of cards and scooping tobacco from his pouch, his thick fingers diligently working a stringy wad into the bowl of his pipe, followed shortly thereafter by a series of gritty strikes of the lighter and wafts of sweet smoke mingling reluctantly with those from the kitchen.
Birds dart and glide through Mark Roper's latest collection, wafting light and air across the pages.
GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE This new organization devoted to fostering early-music activity in New York introduces itself with three quadruple-bill concerts, offered in the style of rock shows at the Fillmore East in the 1960s (but without the light shows and wafting herbal scents).
The distinctive and easily identifiable smell curls along the narrow streets of De Wallen, lingers among the pubs, clubs, bars and coffee shops of the red light district and wafts across the open expanse of Stationsplein as newcomers in transit cram in a full, enhanced, poly-sensory experience of the city.
"A gentle waft or light puff of air should get one out of your way without irritating it," says Dale Harrison of the charity Buglife.
