I felt different from the graduate students I shared bench-tops with; a little bit inferior, a little reluctant to give myself over wholeheartedly to the pursuit of science.
In its compartments, people of different castes and communities are forced to share benches and be wedged together in positions of daring intimacy.
Best bit? Clive Anderson talking about Jack Whitehall complaining about people sitting near him at restaurants where you share benches: "They might be very happy to see you.
But Mr. Diamante, who is originally from Brooklyn, likes seeing the men in three-piece suits sharing benches with people in more eclectic dress, surrounded by bags of stuff.
So, we took the 90-minute commuter ferry, paying $2 and sharing benches with the locals who use it on a daily basis as well as the occasional camper, complete with matted dread-locks and T-shirt, who inevitably planned to spend the night on one of Vieques' desolate and beautiful beaches.
For a period at school, we shared a bench, which was very profitable for me.
A man we know shared a bench in Bryant Park the other day with a young couple who were suffering the afterchills of a serious….
In third-grade class, the Shiite boy who shared a bench with Mr. Tavakkoli drew a line across it, threatening to beat him if he crossed it.
A man we know shared a bench in Bryant Park the other day with a young couple who were suffering the afterchills of a serious argument.
