Gene Siskel cut in: "Do it out in the lobby — play the video game.
So we will not remain silent when manipulative and unscrupulous politicians, political advisors, and their allies in the New York Times, the Jewish Forward, and the Israeli Lobby, play fast and loose with Israel's future and the well-being of the Jewish people globally, in order to gain short term electoral advantage for their preferred candidates.
While he worked, the kids were often sitting in the lobby, playing Nintendo, waiting for him to take them home.
Lastly, with the disquieting influence AIPAC yields, referring to it as "the American-Jewish lobby" (rather than the American-Israell lobby") plays into the hands of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists who associate Jews with plots of political and financial global domination.
There is also a kind of mysterious come-on projection, visible from the street and the lobby, playing on the museum's bridgelike entrance.
"It's hard enough to see someone in a hotel lobby playing a piano who's really good and nobody gives a toss, you know.
Friss is a demon researcher, and his book is full of revelatory facts: who knew that the bicycle lobby played a key role in the Chicago mayoral election of 1887?
Also in the lobby, playing silently, is a loop of Washington-themed movies — "Citizen Kane" (at check-in), "The Candidate" (that evening), and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (at checkout).
The architect was Stephen B. Jacobs, who designed the Gansevoort hotels in New York and Miami Beach; the building has the look of a boutique hotel, with multicolored fluorescent lights set into the walls and giant television monitors in the lobby playing abstract, screen-saver-like shapes.
I remember writing the overture and then going into the grand atrium and lobby, playing it over in my mind and thinking, 'No, that's not going to work.' A residency where you write in the performance space itself is a real luxury".
Waiters don Santa hats, hotel lobbies play "Jingle Bells" on repeat, and storefronts hang "Merry Christmas" banners in their window displays.
