I'm speaking of "Dinner Rush," a 2000 feature set entirely in Gigino's, a TriBeCa restaurant, formerly red-sauce Italian but successfully reconfigured as Mediterranean nouvelle cuisine.
It's kind of a tragic class in China," Wang says, speaking over dinner recently at a dumpling restaurant in Beijing.
The whinging about the absence of excess is nauseating, the sheer and unapologetic materialism is rage-inducing, and the adherence to adolescent text-speak ("dinner 2nite? want 2 go 2 barrio chino?") is confounding.
As our children were growing up, both French- and English-speaking dinner guests in our home were treated to a scene of babelsque chatter, a sort of language ping-pong, as the mother tongue would switch back and forth depending on who was addressing whom.
Mr. McCall has traveled the state tirelessly, speaking at dinners and attending fund-raisers but has not been explicitly seeking support for this event.
He spoke after dinner, along with two other trustees David Sive and Stephan P. Duggan.
As they spoke over dinner the next week, "it was like we knew each other forever," he recalled.
Our meeting was very emotional, and when he spoke before dinner he singled me out as his first boss in extravagant terms — nothing about Richard was ever half-hearted — and seated me at his table.
"If Howard was giving a speech on a Saturday night in the southern part of the state, he'd try to speak before dinner and get home by eight-thirty or nine o'clock".
But I think it's a good bet!'" Solomon provided an audiotape of Bonnie MacKay speaking at the dinner.
Mr Cooke was speaking at a dinner of the Pilgrims held in his honour at the Savoy Hotel.
