He's like that today, too, in a London rehearsal room as the sun sets, perched on a stool by the window so he can chain-smoke, swaddled in layers of leather and linen.
"It was embarrassing," Billingsley told me, sitting on an upholstered Nepalese stool in her sun room, as Kirk greeted the guests on her lawn.
BANGKOK (Reuters) — From empty sun loungers at luxury hotels to vacant bar stools in dingy saloons, tourism in Thailand is going through its worst slump in decades, a result of the global economic slowdown and its own political turmoil.
As the sun fell toward the horizon, I sat on a camp stool with my radio and broadcast my report to HQ.
Snagging a seat by the windows can be difficult, but even a stool at the bar affords a spectacular view of the sun dipping below the Pacific Ocean horizon.
Perched on a stool in a corner of a studio lighted only by the January sun, his arms gently resting on a ballet barre, Mr. Cunningham led the class of 25 dancers.
Sun Xin, 20, is one of nearly 4,000 employees, most sitting on backless stools at counters under fluorescent lights, as they snap and screw together fairly sophisticated portable and countertop DVD players.
It was 6 45, the sun was just coming up, and Beato set up shop near the Mets' dugout, his clubhouse stool transformed into a barber's chair.
At XL, the bar-stool cushions look like ice cubes and the indigo light automatically deepens as the sun goes down.
Sometimes, a stool is just a stool.
