The mayor, Mr. Van Meter said, ignored the comment, instead gesturing to a woman standing nearby in a tight, floor-length gown and making the alleged remark on her derrière.
There is a tighter floor plan downtown — where the fair actually began 14 years ago, under a different name — but it looks and feels pretty good, with 76 participating galleries from 10 countries.
On an evening that saw a tornado hit Queens, and Manhattan buffeted and drenched by wind and rain from the storm's coat-tails, every hot model in town showed up to the Frick Collection in black tie to pay homage to Roitfeld, who held court in bandage-tight, floor-length black Alaïa.
The crowd shimmies as much as it can on the tight main floor.
The quarters are tight: from floor to ceiling measures only seven and a half feet, and the network specifications for camera-readiness are precise down to the glare-free angle of the booth windows overlooking the convention floor.
If someone's had a C-section and they have a really tight pelvic floor, I'm not going to give them Kegels.
But some Democrats took advantage of Speaker John A. Boehner's willingness to allow almost all comers to offer amendments (a big shift in policy from the tight control of floor proceedings practiced by the Democrats when Nancy Pelosi was speaker).
A good way to hold a door upright on its edge is to put "feet" on it by screwing long, wide scraps of wood to the top and bottom ends, resting them tight against the floor.
In reality, each held up to 2,000, crammed so tight on concrete floors that at night, according to our guide, "when one turned, all had to turn".
This being New York, space was tight: on the floor-to-ceiling shelves, Mrs. Adelman stood the typewriters on their ends to make room for more.
"Verrouillé à tous les étages," she said of the scent — every floor locked tight.
