In 1960, a group of college students from North Carolina A&T staged a lunch-counter demonstration that would sweep through the South and eventually force change.
Outside, in a fraction of one vast parking lot, they staged a tailgate lunch – Twickenham's west car park in miniature, overlooked by the rusted post-industry of New Jersey's wilder shores.
Recently, Caroline staged a very public lunch at Sylvia's, the Harlem landmark, with Al Sharpton, another self-made pol.
IN THE early 1990s, as Labour battled to recast itself as a moderate, pro-business, and therefore electable party, senior shadow ministers staged a series of lunches with City of London bigwigs.
The lunches ended after administrators staged a sting operation.
For instance, Chen Guangbiao, the Chinese millionaire who staged a lavish lunch/self-promotion at the Boathouse in Central Park for two hundred homeless New Yorkers and then failed to fulfill a promise to give each of them three hundred dollars in cash.
Now, with the departure of the last two remaining journalists from the street of a thousand dreams*, the London Press Club is marking the historic milestone by staging a special long lunch.
You can see how burning a draft card was, rightly or wrongly, a relevant rebellion against a war, how having sex was a rebellion against confining sexual norms, how staging a sit-in at a lunch counter was a rebellion against segregation, how taking drugs was a rebellion against a restrictive culture.
At the Museum of Modern Art, which has focused heavily on performance art over the past few years, Ms. Knowles was asked to stage a series of the lunches, which she considers enactments of an "event score," a loose, improvisation-friendly script that became a hallmark of Fluxus.
Play with Your Food, a popular staged reading and lunch program in Greenwich, Westport and Fairfield, now runs its ticketing through F.T.C. and StageOne hosts the Fairfield lunch.
Governance points the way ahead The quiet men and women of the boardroom are staging a fightback, Simon Osborne explained to me over lunch on Thursday.
