In a city teeming with faux vieux Irish saloons and restaurants adorned with plaques reading "A tradition since 1988," the single-screen Paris is the real thing, a bona fide vestige of a storied past.
Along with the usual Irish tchotchkes, like plaques reading "Alcohol doesn't cause hangovers, waking up does," shops have sprung up to sell Obama clocks, magnets, lighters and T-shirts reading "O'bama Is Feidir Linn" (Gaelic for "Yes We Can") and "What's the Craic Barack?" (craic means fun).
Thirty or so reporters and photographers gathered outside Mr. Franken's office on Monday morning to watch a maintenance worker hang a silver- and brass-rimmed plaque reading "Senator Al Franken, Minnesota" outside the work space formerly occupied by Mr. Coleman.
The control room, carpeted in gray, is dominated by an immaculate twenty-four-track console, on which is a plaque reading "YOUR BEER ON MY CONSOLE IS YOUR INVITATION TO LEAVE — HAG".
"This is one of the first buildings to be renovated, back in the early eighties," he said, pointing to a four-story brick factory with an engraved stone plaque reading "Union Works 1827-1890".
I recognized it immediately — it is an obligatory photographic subject of the Plath biographies, and its oval blue ceramic plaque reading "William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet and dramatist, lived here" is a compulsively mentioned (and yet oddly irrelevant) detail.
They might also consider installing in the lobby of each Sackler Wing, Gallery, Museum, and Institute a large plaque reading "This building is thanks to the generosity of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, which started and continues to fuel the epidemic of prescription-opioid addiction that is responsible for two hundred thousand overdose deaths".
Well, then, feel free to picture the pale Beatles singer sporting some of Yoko's sartorial imaginings, like a $200 LED jockstrap and this $400 transparent chest plaque reading ""RING FOR YOUR MOMMY PIECE y.o.o
The carotid plaque reading protocol was performed offline and all the ultrasonic data were read by a single neurologist (HFL).
Linda C. Kobetitsch," the plaque reads.
The plaque reads: In memory of NICK WHITE.
