Even humble Surguru, where the superlative vegetarian thalis cost just 45 rupees, or slightly more than $1, had a wood-beamed vaulted ceiling, tabletops covered with shellacked newspapers and a contingent of chic French expatriate wives at lunchtime.
Chairs and tabletops are covered with papers, articles, and books.
Wood tabletops are covered with cheap brown paper, which tends to lower the expectation level.
The tabletops are covered with paper, boxes of files, computers and fax machines.
In addition to pictures of pro athletes, the tabletops are covered with laminated photographs of loyal clientele.
Across the room, tabletops are covered with bottled water, flip-top cellphones turned to mute, leather Bibles and tiny, shiny black handbags.
In "Pouring" (1994), for example, shafts of light of varying thickness seem to descend on a variety of containers on a table -- a wooden bowl, a ceramic bowl, a metal bucket and a glass jar -- and on the tabletop itself, which is covered with drops of water.
She remembers the tub in the kitchen, which when not being used for baths was covered with a tabletop.
Tabletops cleaned with such rags were covered with 45 times more bacteria AFTER cleaning than prior to it.
Every tabletop in his office in Jadwin Gymnasium on campus is covered with assorted reading material — from John Wooden to "The Little Book of Talent," a slim self-improvement manual — and Surace estimates he and his father have 800 books in their collections.
