Stewed chicken and rice complete on the stove, handsome in incandescent light, with the table set by dinner.
A month after the closing ceremony at the Beijing Olympics, the procession to the table set by the 41-year-old Torres with her triple-silver-medal performance shows no signs of trailing off.
They approached a table set by the Sheet Metal Workers Local 20. "If you are not afraid of hard work and you show up every day, the sky is the limit," a recruiter, Tim Choate, told them.
He was telling us about that experience when Blinken spotted a large ball of birds hovering just above the rollers off the point at the lighthouse -- eating at the table set by the fish as they herded bait fish to the surface for slaughter.
But if you step back and look at the terms of the debate, it's still a table set by Republicans -- in which the main selling point is $2,000 in your pocket on one side, and an all-out effort to keep more in the pocket of the 2percentt on the other side.
The restaurant is as friendly, as casual, as come-as-you-are as the neighborhood; its small tables set cheek-by-jowl, its walls decorated only with vintage jazz LP covers like Ella Fitzgerald's "Lady Time" and Coltrane's "Soultrane".
A raised area with 8 or 10 tables, set off by a brass rail, gives the room a pleasing terraced look.
A short distance away, similar tables set up by the governing party in Tamil Nadu State, allied in the elections to the Congress Party, were quiet for long periods.
They walked arm-in-arm among the booths, pausing to examine expensive Champagne, vacation packages for gay couples, and tables set up by lawyers offering services or advice on domestic partnership agreements and adoption.
