"Yeah, we did have a conversation," a somber Woods said.
The day also saw the airing a new 30-second television commercial for Nike featuring a seemingly somber Woods staring straight into the camera with the voice of his father saying: "I want to find out what your thinking was.
Students all ate in the Commons, an elegant dining hall with high ceilings, somber portraits and dark wood paneling -- the formal atmosphere undermined by the pats of butter that the boys sent hurtling at one other or at the walls, where they stuck if catapulted with enough force.
Mélisande, a lovely, fragile and secretive young woman, is discovered lost in the woods by the somber but decent Golaud, who marries her.
In the somber aftermath of the devastating loss, Wood walked up to a small group of reporters and used words few athletes ever utter about themselves.
On view in "The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend" are mature works from the nineteen-forties through the eighties: her signature, tightly composed sculptures made of scavenged odds and ends of wood painted in a somber range of monochrome colors.
The once dark and somber bar now has chairs of pale beech wood and a marble counter that is nearly white.
"Hotel Seeblick," which measures about 6 by 11 feet, has six generic young people with somber expressions sitting or standing about, some smoking, in a rustic cafe with an emphatically grained wood floor, green striped walls and tables with red-and-white-checked table clothes.
The blond furniture, the pair of white candles suspended from a long row of wooden coat pegs, and the smell of wood smoke all transport you out of New York to some other place — maybe a soothing, if somber, cabin by a Swedish lake.
