A billowing white smoke grenade offers advancing forces cover as they go room to room, exchanging gunfire with mock militants.
Following those brief remarks the Curiosity mission team filed through the briefing room exchanging high-fives and beaming smiles.
Mr. Norman, the Brooklyn Democratic Party leader, worked his way across the room, exchanging hearty salutations and good wishes.
The group then waited in a sitting room, exchanging stories and memories about the writer, while the staff determined whether she was up to having visitors.
On a recent night, people locked hands and danced, leaned on barstools and peered around the room, exchanging laughs over tall glasses with fizzy drinks and lime.
Outside the rehearsal space, visitors stood in a windowless room exchanging whispers over a rubble of dirty mugs and spent tea bags while waiting for the actors to take a break.
Can someone explain why I'm taking an hour-long train ride to spend all day in a room exchanging e-mails with somebody six feet away from me? Is there even a Taco Bell within walking distance of my office?
The setup: Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi play Freddie and Stuart, a caustic and snobby gay couple joined in their contempt for each other, who pace around their sitting room exchanging insults like two fractious iguanodons while a host of friends such as Frances de la Tour and Iwan Rheon, AKA GoT's Ramsay Snow, drop by.
Eventually, it was U.S. chat rooms, exchanging stories, feelings, desires, telling of trysts and transgressions, confusion, shame, lust.
