ERRAND-FREE After brunch there's usually a prolonged period of lounging.
Visionary design has its limits, however, and Mr. Harmon's interiors appear to have been little different from other giant hotels of the period: great paneled lounges, a dining room with a beamed ceiling and long groin-vaulted hallways.
Crandall's, an old restaurant near the Capitol, was reborn a few years ago as the Tornado Steakhouse, complete with a period-perfect 1940s-era lounge and a cocktail list that includes a turbo-charged old-fashioned — the supper club cocktail par excellence — made with Cognac.
This participant reported one episode of swimming during the study period, described as "lounging at a pool" (i.e. not swimming for exercise).
Totally against the rules, during homeroom period, he'd laconically lounge out in the hall, always with a toothpick peeking out of the corner of his mouth.
A huge installation of refashioned period artifacts, "Remember the Upstairs Lounge," by Skylar Fein, memorializes a bohemian bar where a fire killed thirty-two people in 1973; the event occasioned a Stonewall-like collective coming out of gays in New Orleans.
Community preservationists' concerns about the Disneyfication of Harlem (in particular, the not-unlikely threat of theme-restaurant-style renovations at period clubs like the Lenox Lounge) reached Mr. Reed through newspaper articles, he said.
The extensions carried out around this time, in the Edwardian style typical of the period, included a sea-facing lounge at the rear of the hotel, and were carried out by Brighton architectural firm Clayton & Black.
Hall's Senate committees have spent $7,812 on cigars and membership at cigar lounges during the period and $42,000 on airfare and hotels.
