Special architectural flourishes, prior celebrity ownership, even anecdotal tales of happy years lived in a placid space add bonus value.
Looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows, which provide 360-degree views of the city — and beyond, with the panorama stretching out to the ocean — Ms. Cofer, who teaches yoga in a placid space between the living room and the dining room, said: "The ceiling height and the energy is very special.
But after removing my shoes and entering the sculpture's airlock vestibule, I found myself inside a soft and placid space unlike anything I've experienced before.
These placid spaces, devoid of people, resonate with history, alluding to the beauty parlors, barbershops and lunch counters that facilitated African-American activism and resistance.
"They wanted a happy, placid place".
Events thAt were actually of great significance seemed so far away and so irrelevery. .
Not a Jersey Girl adds an important element of historicity to an exhibition that is not located in a placid, white-walled space, but in the space of a once important pharmaceutical factory.
At the end, Stanley descended from her perch and appeared among the others, and they watched as she danced to Satie's sweet "Je Te Veux," bringing a bit of her light to them, drawing each of them into her orbit as they moved across the space in placid triplets.
By the time Siboni, a soft-spoken, twenty-seven-year-old graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, and I walked out into the gallery space, the usually placid and serene white box resembled a play den of overactive children.
Lieber lurched forward, then dove onto her front and slid, seal-like, ending with her body arched, her hands clapping behind her; Voss, elfin and placid, ran lightly around the space, wagging his hands, a babyish romp that Nishimura adopted.
In a swift reawakening of the controversies generated by Mr. Reagan's program, critics of the plan fear that it could transform space from a placid zone of live and let live -- where private communications satellites mingle with scientific experiments and the occasional astronaut, as well as with military surveillance hardware -- into a potential battlefield.
