Through the window, he could see a petite, dark-haired woman, "this absolute vision," he recalled, fumbling for the cellphone in her purse.
A petite, dark-haired woman, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, Ms. Geyik is accustomed to answering the question Where are you from?
Petite, dark-haired and about 40, she took the tiny stage in the narrow room and fixed her gaze on a middle-aged man holding a drink.
But for this petite, dark-haired actress, whose longtime boyfriend, Jason Flemyng, won attention in Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," her hopes for a breakthrough to bigger roles clearly lie in "Aberdeen".
Now, belatedly, Le Monde has dedicated an entire page to her, while other newspapers and magazines have suddenly "discovered" the petite dark-haired woman who, beyond this country's borders, has become France's best known living writer.
Ms. Verma, a petite, dark-eyed young woman whose quiet, shy demeanor gives no hint that she has starred in 18 movies in the last three years, gave a different account.
"There would be a news story on TV, man after man after man talking about it, and then, suddenly, this petite, dark-haired woman would take the stage, with this air of bravery," she said.
A petite, dark-skinned woman with an ageless, elfin face, she was dressed in a black fur vest, thick black tights, and a pair of Owens's "mega-turbo" ankle boots — a high platform wedge with a cloven toe and a leather protrusion at the back of the heel.
The petite, dark-haired Delobel and the tall, blond Schoenfelder, both from France, were world champions in 2008 and were looking like favorites for the gold medal in Vancouver after climbing the ranks for many years, an ice dance prerequisite, and finishing fourth in the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Cahn, who is so many things that Batali isn't — petite, dark-haired, East Coast, Jewish to his lapsed Catholic, early-to-bed to his out-until-early, reserved and deliberate to his outgoing and impulsive — illustrates the kind of person Batali probably gets on with best.
