(The staff is said to arrive two hours before opening to chill glasses, squeeze fresh juices and hand-cut blocks of ice which supposedly keeps the drinks from diluting too quickly).
I no longer sought the slightest open space to squeeze into and perhaps escape from a jam.
There was something there, an immovable shadow stretched long and dark across the doorstep, and it took everything the brother had to wedge the door open enough to squeeze out into the night.
Ever since former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani opened his campaign to squeeze the sin out of sin city, New Yorkers have wrestled with built-in contradictions that seem obvious to almost everyone except perhaps municipally paid lawyers.
Customers at each stop were surprised when the back doors were opened to reveal an Englishman squeezed between the racks of bread.
Boosters of "public provision" think that if Medicare, the government health scheme for the elderly, were opened to all comers, it could squeeze savings out of hospitals just as Wal-Mart does from its suppliers.That seems plausible; but look closer, and it turns out the insurers are not being unreasonable.
The tagline for the inane horror flick "The Reaping" asks, "What hath God wrought?" The question really should be addressed to Warner Brothers, the studio releasing this schlock-o-rama, and all those clever little gnomes in Hollywood who keep trying to squeeze boffo opening weekends from even the lamest horror premise.
He wanted to open everything up, to bring — to squeeze — everything into art: high, low; old, new; savagery, grace.
As Michael Brenson wrote in The New York Times in 1985, "The sculpture seems both to open like magical doors and to squeeze inward like a trap, both to expose itself like a flower hungry for the sun and to curl up like a sunflower at dusk".
Life's lemons can turn to lemonade, but it takes an open attitude to remember to squeeze them and add sugar.
