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An imam's call to the faithful wafts over the tents.
But from one doorway wafts the incongruous scent of Christmas.
The smell of smoke wafts out of the engine room.
Sports of The Times Socialism wafts in the spring wind.
A supernatural, spiritual air wafts through all of their works.
Ms. Teo's only complaint is that smoke from neighbors wafts in.
The scent of burning wood, mead, and leather wafts through the air.
Indie rock music wafts through the air, adding to the festive vibe.
An atmosphere surrounds them that wafts in from the same faraway kingdom.
The smell wafts around and everyone complains about it behind her back.
I'm super sensitive to cigarette smoke and NOLA has pervasive wafts of it.
The scent of fresh baked bread wafts in the air near the bakery.
Raucous bickering wafts in from off-screen; Katherine's three daughters are still awake.
A pleasant scent of eucalyptus, cardamom, cedar and oak wafts through the air.
The stench wafts across the town when it washes up on the riverbanks.
She also wafts between typical tennis parent and been-there-done-that observer.
They lean over the steaming contents, and Skoorsmith wafts the aroma into his nose.
The smell of dead bodies still wafts through some of the worst-hit areas.
"It means so much," she begins, inhaling shakily while her voice wafts into a whisper.
The air of classic modernism's fascination with pure form wafts through this graphically potent series.
The scent of new car leather and freshly cut green grass wafts through the rooms.
A hot claustrophobic room full of strangers and sweet wafts of ground beef, tickling your nose.
As the aroma of chicken biryani wafts through the mosque, the children waiting outside grow restless.
And, when the weather's warm and its flower are blooming, the tree wafts them out freely.
Right on cue, a wave of freshly baked DKA smell wafts in from the next room.
CHENGDU, China — The tang of the famed cooking of Sichuan wafts through streets crowded with restaurants.
A large Sea Nettle wafts past Poney's head, pausing momentarily to lend him a gelatinous hairpiece.
On occasion, fireworks exploded above, sending flashes of light and wafts of smoke through the square.
Northern California is accustomed to wildfires and occasional wafts of smoke that drift with the winds.
The unmistakable skunk smell of pot wafts through the crowd, lacing the event with a hippie vibe.
A basil leaf hits the pizza's surface as the scent of late summer wafts through the room.
The music that wafts through the space also comes from the wooden speakers on which they rest.
Slowly, the acrid tang of artificial sweetness wafts inside, and sounds fade in somewhere behind my head.
A musty smell wafts through the air as a draft comes from the direction of the gym.
The skunky smell of marijuana smoke wafts through restaurants in the ski resorts of Dizin and Shemshak.
Steam wafts any seasonings noseward as the hot fat coats your lips and courses over your tongue.
" Keeping her own proverbial business hours, she wafts through the streets propelled by a "deep, grim satisfaction.
Plastic film ends up in landfills or is exported overseas, where it often wafts into the water.
Two kids in front of me try to sneak a joint and the smoke wafts my way.
Cigarette smoke wafts around, the banter is loud, and the ammonia shows little sign of easing up.
There wafts to your unwilling nostrils the thick coarse smell of a male body, clothes not recently washed.
Music wafts from speakers, and the scent of sausages from S&M Sausage and Meat fills the air.
Video screens flicker with historical concert footage, and recorded audio of the band talking about songwriting wafts overhead.
The lush scent of plumeria wafts from the courtyard, where a Piranesi-inspired mural overlooks a turquoise pool.
Reichl's description of what the Gourmet team is aiming for is so evocative that it wafts off the page.
Splashing wafts these irritants into the air, where they form a nasty layer that hovers over the water's surface.
Cigarette smoke wafts from the foyer, where workers in overalls lounge on battered sofas enjoying a break between shifts.
Legal recreational marijuana smoke wafts into Canadian skies in about eight months, a subject I wrote about this week.
The 12 treatment rooms have heated tables, and a proprietary scent of bergamot and frankincense wafts in the air.
You hear the whirl of a stream from below and smell wafts of grenache coming in from your window.
Frankincense wafts through the space, while screeching dragon sounds can be heard intermittently between the soundscape of ceremonial music.
The cars are boxy, the men wear fedoras, steam rises from the manhole covers and jazz wafts through the air.
The sound of hammering wafts up from a renovation on the first floor, placing our words to a grating rhythm.
A WARM aroma of citrus bath salts wafts through the lobby of the Thermae-yu spa in Tokyo's Kabukicho district.
As the lid comes off, the odor wafts through the room: it smells like a thrift store soaked in vodka.
The smell of masala spices that wafts from the plate prefigures succulent pieces of meat sautéed with onions and potatoes.
The acrid smell, wafts of smoke and pools of incinerated garbage lent this seaside community an apocalyptic air on Tuesday.
Motors buzz, gasoline wafts in the air, participants strap GoPros to their heads, and we watch as the snowmobilers fail.
Nikola Jokic and Mason Plumlee (whose skin tone wafts between ghost and radish) are an awkward albeit effective frontcourt duo.
During football season, the aroma of smoked meats and banter about the University of Alabama's performance wafts across the park.
But in December, wafts of wood burning in chimneys or bonfires in the fields take over and the mosquitoes mostly vanish.
But even after dumping a good deal of water on the device it still smolders as smoke wafts from its insides.
The acoustics in the auditorium are excellent; at the interval, the smell of freshly baked, Proust-bitingly-good madeleines wafts in.
Where grime is verbose and cathartic, U.K. drill traffics in a cool heartlessness, a sense of menace that wafts and oozes.
The scent from the purple and white carpet of sweet alyssum wafts through our open windows if the breeze is right.
The lead in the musical film wafts between moments of reality and moments in which he imagines what he wished had happened.
It is a non-consuming smoke, the mesmerizing beauty of smoke as it curls and wafts and draws a viewer inexorably near.
An underlying sense of melancholy wafts through Ms. Skarpetowska's loosely autobiographical piece, set to a folk score by Ljova ( Lev Zhurbin), performed live.
The campaign's aggression toward journalists carries faint wafts of fascism, coming off the sports coats of Trump's security team like a cheap cologne.
The smell of slow-smoked meat wafts on the Gulf breeze from a nearby barbecue joint, taunting the drinkers in the venerable bar.
Maybe Trump has never been able to grow a stache of his own, one that compliments the blond wafts of his hair helmet.
Walking into the Arena Coliseo de Guadalajara, you're greeted with delightful wafts of freshly popped corn and good-hearted jeers from the crowd.
It's amazing: velvety sweet potatoes next to soft and caramelized bell peppers next to crisp roasted chicken thighs and wafts of pungent sage.
Methane gas periodically wafts into the atmosphere of Mars; that notion, once considered implausible and perplexing, is now widely accepted by planetary scientists.
Yet, once you'd acclimatised to the wafts of sterile sex and the baseless lust and seediness, something approaching soulful emanated from the decks.
Some of that perplexity wafts through "Wildlife," which, though pretty much free of violence, is sorely vexed for reasons that are hard to identify.
The milky, aromatic steam that wafts from Hainan-style chicken and rice—redolent of chicken fat, ginger, and sharp alliums—is an intoxicating one.
On the flip is "Infrared," a lush and lighthearted electro jam that slowly builds and wafts away before snapping into a deep bassline groove.
A breeze blows up from the sea, tasting of brine and minerals, so fresh that a spontaneous cheer wafts along the crowded parade route.
The pungent odor of decomposing kombucha leather, the acrid tang of burning paper, or the cloying sweetness of deep-fried flowers wafts through the halls.
Jazz from a real record player wafts in the background as Tess walks past Simone's record collection, her bookcases, and even her open Paris Review.
So, two of us—both women—go upstairs, knock on the door, the door flies open, and out wafts the smell of sweat and semen.
A foreign aroma currently wafts through one of its galleries, concocted from the least expected sources: carpenter ants and sweat samples from Asian American women.
It is not until the fourth hole that the course kisses the coast and the briny smell of the sea wafts in the heavy air.
Now, Ms. Simons dances to music playing from her stereo in her apartment, as the smell of her freshly cooked meals wafts through the air.
You start a rumor and watch as the falsehood wafts on a gentle breeze, he sings, passing into people's ears, and then out their mouths.
"Original Blend" delivers wafts of freshly made coffee alongside an undertone of sweet creaminess, with a top note that combines espresso bean with cold brew.
Just before Brooklyn Mirage's opening, Mr. Singh strolled the labyrinthine premises, past droning saws, extension cords and garbage-scented wafts emanating from a nearby junkyard.
It wafts into nothingness, seeps into our daily lives without asking for consent, lingering pleasantly, leaving just as soon as it crept through the kitchen.
An attendant wafts a pressurized container of pure earthiness toward me as I wiggle through a hole in the soil and slowly creep toward the sky.
Wafts of floral hyacinth, pungent vinegar, earthy wheatgrass and perfumey rose water — it's a particular mingling that comes together every spring during the Persian New Year.
A February night in Harlem, 7 in the evening, and at Charles' Country Pan Fried Chicken, a faint aroma wafts out on the cold night air.
He means it romantically, but as a romantic song wafts over the scene with visions of blood stains, the sinister double meaning of the phrase is heightened.
But people have continued to relieve themselves on streets—so site-seeing historic architecture can often come with visions of rogue pissers and wafts of stale micturition.
Specifically, the model is showing the progression of aerosols—wafts of sea salt, dust, and smoke—blowing through the atmosphere from July 31 to November 1, 2017.
Let your nose catch hold of the fragrant cookie scent that wafts around the block and take a trip to the flagship store, which opened in 1924.
While we were at the brewery, a bag of candy caps was being passed around, and wafts of maple syrup could be smelled from across the table.
Audiobooks Ignore the scent of self-congratulation that wafts from nearly every book in the How to Succeed category and what remains is largess, priced to move.
Wafts of gangrenous infection wrapped in the rancid stench of overused blood-soaked bandages fused with the smell of a fear fed on the emptiness of hunger.
And now the same team of scientists has confirmed earlier readings of wafts of methane by measurements from the Mars Express orbiter and from NASA's Curiosity rover.
In K11 Atelier, as in all his projects, Mr. Cheng is attuned to the details, down to his patented vanilla-coconut scent, which wafts throughout the building.
At the poles in winter, it falls out of the air and freezes to ice, then wafts back into the atmosphere as temperatures warm in the spring.
An eyeless tick's includes not just the smell of butyric acid, which wafts from mammalian skin, but the years-long wait for a moment of succulent opportunity.
The comforting smell of coal fire wafts through the streets, greeting her from a distance as she looks out on to the tidy flowerbeds of her front garden.
But even if moral disgust is special, it is no accident that our facial expression also blocks wafts of foul air from getting into our eyes and nostrils.
More than a week after the collapse, a horrible smell of trash and decomposing bodies still wafts through the neighborhood, which is crowded with survivors, mourners and volunteers.
In the first song ("No … the dreams have not vanished"), a melancholic vocal line spins and weaves then wafts away, as an orchestral postlude lingers, spiked with piercing harmonies.
A few hours later, the stakes are raised when the smell of smoke wafts in on the wind: A wildfire has gripped the forest and is headed their way.
The smoke from neighbors' cigarettes that wafts up from the stoop outside her first-floor apartment can activate it, sounding a buzzer, flashing a light and quaking her bed.
Marijuana smoke wafts down streets all over the city, from the brownstones in upper-middle-class areas of Manhattan to apartment buildings in working-class neighborhoods in other boroughs.
Citrus, typically a combination of mandarin and bergamot, wafts through the first floor of Ms. Wolfe's home, while frankincense and sandalwood perfume the bedrooms on the two upper levels.
Directed by Benjamin Kamine, "Washer/Dryer" never really pops into three dimensions, not even when the smell of sizzling garlic wafts into the audience from a wok in Sonya's kitchen.
Then, Winfrey's voice wafts into June's life, serving as a reminder that her possible predicament isn't a predicament at all; it's a light at the end of the Gilead tunnel.
The archangel wafts in from the left on a cloud of smoke, wearing a tunic of lustrous magenta, spreading his wings of steely gray as he delivers the big news.
The open bar upstairs certainly helped, as did the intensifying wafts of paint fumes, but there was also a thrill in creating something at once so temporary and so permanent.
Mr. Ratmansky — the most remarkable ballet choreographer of our day — here gives prominence to the all-female corps de ballet, which wafts atmospheric fragrance all around, and three contrasting muses.
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Wearing chemical suits and gasmasks, Syrian doctors rush to a house where white smoke wafts over a group of people choking and coughing, some calling out for help.
The odor wafts into the back of the orchestra whenever the doors are ajar, particularly just before the first act and during intermission; its intensity varies based on the air flow.
It's round after round of Inoki on his ass, kicking upwards while Ali wafts kicks at his grounded opponent, hoping to stand him up so he has something to punch at.
This is also from the Entre-Deux-Mers, but the estate is close to Saint-Emilion, so some of the juju apparently wafts over on the wind from its prestigious neighbor.
" "All of the people that I get to work with smell of sweat and have got broken noses and cauliflower ears," joked Statham, "So when she wafts in, it's quite a delight.
As the women approached the factories that morning, they pulled their scarves over their faces against the smell, a stomach-turning odor that wafts off tallow-rendering vats and suggests rotting meat.
Soft LandingHospital staff receive a text message shortly before their Zip is due to arrive, and the package wafts safely down, landing within the area of a couple of parking spaces. 4.
Its walls are covered in art by his wife, there are children's toys scattered on the floor, and the aroma of incense with hints of really good weed wafts in the air.
This was the only way to legally conduct a course of this type in New York, where the aroma of pot wafts down every street but the law still prohibits its usage.
After a strange smell suddenly wafts into West Ham, and the kids are sent off on a field trip and immediately return to do "rock slides," they discover that everyone else is gone.
Its diplomats abhor a vacuum, and from time to time a proposal to "engage" Russia on this or that dossier, from cyberterrorism to climate change, wafts vaguely out of some European foreign ministry.
The province has one of the biggest oil fields in the country, something that is abundantly clear to anyone driving through the city, as the smell of oil wafts through the car windows.
So he pours his energy into making great wings, focusing obsessively on a new recipe he describes as "spicy Cajun Alfredo, with bourbon-infused bacon," the scent of which wafts into the audience.
He is an adult who likes to hang out with kids, for one, a habit that only Eva skeptically questions as she wafts about in a cloud of pot smoke and bad vibes.
Going back decades, residents along the coastline between Long Beach and Newport Beach have reported a powerful stench that wafts into the region every so often and lingers for an hour or longer.
Once inside, a tiny kitchen at the bottom of the stairs — where the smell of meringue wafts in the air — is where a chef whips the sabayon for the egg coffees into a frenzy.
Donald J. Trump was fresh out of college with a medical deferment from the draft, steeped in the paleo-Hefner masculinity that wafts through the hallways of News of the Week like Aqua Velva.
Jess Williamson, a songwriter from Austin, wafts her voice into a hypnotic waltz that floats on slow guitar picking and a lingering drone, eventually gathering a ghostly choir around her, never puncturing the enigma.
To that end there are several Jackies roving in the movie, among them the anxious, breathy hostess who wafts through the White House, explaining her renovations to a CBS crew for a 1962 tour.
AMID wafts of incense and marijuana smoke, hordes of smiling folk in fairylike garb or, for a few, just body paint, dance in a patchwork of majestic forest glades near the town of Tidewater, Oregon.
If an air of works-in-progress collectively wafts through them, it is not because these paintings are unfinished — not at all — but because among their main themes are abstraction's enduring vitality and malleable expressiveness.
His mother, Feliciana (Jai Baptista), is routinely forced to share Antonio's bed, which suggests that Virgílio may be Antonio's son, one more complication in a lyrically minded movie that wafts into schematic tidiness and bluntness.
Our skies have been sullied, as have our lungs; mercury wafts from these and other smokestacks and falls with rain on Mesa Verde National Park and in the clear, icy streams of the San Juan Mountains.
In another, a current of smoke wafts across the painting like a lazy jet stream, through a levitating circle seemingly made of shiny red ribbon, while the background pattern is green-on-green, a camouflagelike brocade.
Such an air of mystery and secretiveness wafts inescapably through the pages of Lynne Adele and Bruce Lee Webb's new book, As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 28–2200 (University of Texas Press).
They're the kind of place where you'll run into at least one person you know at the only grocery store in town and the smell of cow manure from nearby dairy farms occasionally wafts in the air.
Ms. Silverton and Mr. Fox rhapsodized about the fuller, sweeter berry taste, the juice-dribbling texture (compared with the chalky innards of some commercial berries) and an aroma that wafts toward marketgoers before they reach the stall.
Nineteen years since he planted his first tree, money from the fruit, which tastes faintly of pineapple with wafts of banana, has allowed him to swap a bicycle for a motorbike and to care for his extended family.
Everything more complicated than that wafts up the back of your throat via a process called retronasal olfaction to an array of nerve endings dangling through a perforated bit of skull behind your nose called the cribriform plate.
Often overlooked compared to cars and factories that are far bigger causes of smog, ship traffic has more than doubled off East Asia since 2005 and some pollution from the fuel oil of ships wafts inland, they said.
In a mildly cluttered house on the outskirts of the city of Langfang, in China's northeastern Hebei province, the scent of oven-baked bread wafts around, dovetailing with happy clappy Christian rock music emanating from the kitchen stereo.
Hearing a poet read in "voseo," and enunciate like a distant family member, or viewing a photographer's portraits taken in la pulga where the scent of roasted corn wafts through the air, bring a deeper level of connection.
One of the Today show hosts' "what do you wanna do when you grow up?" wafts out of the speakers in Porchester Hall, the house that now vibrates with the start of H.E.R.'s relationship-focused R&B.
Ian Schrager held a party for the Times Square Edition, a 452-room hotel operated in partnership with Marriott International that wafts 42 stories above the touristy throng, as if held aloft by the heat of Broadway lights.
Fall has a scent, and Bath & Body Works has pinpointed it, melted it down, and poured it into a glass jar that wafts Peppered Suede or Pumpkin Peanut Brittle throughout your living room when you light the wick.
Outside, the mouthwatering smell of kebabs grilling over charcoal in long metal trays on the sidewalks wafts along the street, although nowadays it mingles, probably more than ever, with the odor of raw waste running down open sewers.
We're sitting in a blonde wood booth in the back of the restaurant, snacking on harissa olives and the most delicately-seasoned cashews (is that rosemary I'm tasting?), while a gentle California-afternoon breeze wafts through the open windows.
The Shrine is the kind of place Nigerian parents warn their children about, a nightspot that is synonymous with wafts of marijuana smoke, gyrating back up dancers and the pulsating sounds of the Afrobeat music popularized by Fela Kuti.
I'm writing this edition of the Impeachment Briefing from snowy, frigid Battle Creek, a town of around 50,000 and the epicenter of American cereal production, where the scent of Rice Krispies and Raisin Bran sometimes wafts through the air.
Protestors confront police in riot gear as a haze of pepper spray wafts over the river on November 2, 2016 (AP Photo/John L. Mone)Make no mistake that protesters and the journalists covering the protest were brutalized by police.
Protestors confront police in riot gear as a haze of pepper spray wafts over the river on November 2, 2016 (AP Photo/John L. Mone)Make no mistake that protestors and the journalists covering the protest have been brutalized by police.
The energy from one song wafts to the next, and on stage, the band takes breaks only every so often, so the audience has a chance to catch its collective breath and Yoni can thank them all for coming out.
While many Championship owners are maddened by the smell of money which wafts tantalisingly from the top flight – and scrabble desperately to get there as a consequence – Fernandes seems philosophical and reasonable about what the club should be looking to achieve.
Koreans will be quick to tell you that the gray haze steamrolling their city wafts over from China and Mongolia, but the unending parade of cars in this sprawling metro area of over 20 million are probably not entire blameless.
The street's West Side Bazaar, a popular lunch and shopping spot, is filled with vendors who sell hand-woven tapestries and beaded jewelry, while the smell of Ethiopian spices and Malaysian ramen from its food court wafts through the room.
And even after facing some thousands, I'm never bored to see that speckled silver beast glimmering on my cutting board, and I openly smile every time the wildly counterintuitive scent of fresh watermelon wafts up when you split it open.
Its benign charisma wafts out from delicate black-and-white photographs, and from a text that can only be read — if it is not to be found entirely risible — as an allegory of the relation of royalty to its people.
It probably helps that a heady hippie fragrance wafts from an atomizer in the shop, the scent itself devised by Ms. Eisner in collaboration with the perfumer Haley Alexander van Oosten and named — for what seem like autobiographically pertinent reasons — Nomad 1957.
That these symbols have been reduced to playthings for tourists is a coda to the brutal narrative of indigenous people's military subjugation and internment in reservations — a fact I have to reconcile with the rich smell of the cedar chips that wafts over me.
Patrons sitting in the back had a hard time ignoring enticing wafts from the kitchen; they eventually succumbed and ordered, from a food menu helpfully divided into Pizza and Not Pizza, the Loverboy pie, with crushed tomatoes, mozzarella, pepperoni, and a ramp-ranch dressing.
PARIS (Reuters) - As the stench of rotten, uncleared garbage wafts through parts of Paris and pilots prepare to strike, French President Francois Hollande said he would do what was needed to ensure protests do not spoil the Euro 2016 soccer tournament starting on Friday.
As the flight attendants dole out our sole free snack on this flight of six and a half hours — a lone Lotus Biscoff ("Europe's Favorite Cookie With Coffee") — the aroma of something delicious that may or may not be lasagna wafts in from the front.
Operating out of a warehouse in San Francisco's Mission District, pungent smoke often wafts in from the courtyard of Meadow HQ. Its willingness to serve as a community hub and event space has established Meadow as the commerce layer connecting players in the burgeoning legal pot business.
But even as the smell of smoke still wafts through this area north of San Francisco, public health officials and environmental cleanup experts are starting to think about the next chapter of the disaster: the huge amount of debris and ash that will be left behind.
As hate crimes towards minorities continue to rise in this country and neo-Nazi rhetoric (some of which comes from Jews!) wafts up from the darkest recesses of the Internet to the highest halls of power, it feels like a dark time to be the chosen people.
A rectangle of chain-link fencing hangs on another wall, strung with scores of flat graphic leaves that replicate car air fresheners; some actually are air fresheners, faintly permeating the gallery with their industrial perfume, just as the music from the video next door wafts into the space.
According to a report published on Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, the type of secondhand smoke that grillers everywhere need to worry about now is the kind that wafts up off of your loaded Weber each time you fire it up for a (previously) relaxing barbecue sesh.
"What could better counter the alienation of a high-technology environment," Witt wonders, "than a reminder of [something like] the ancient, primal scent" of smoldering palo santo, which South American indigenous peoples have burned for centuries for its healing properties, and which now wafts through high-end galleries and nightspots?
The whistleblower based in Taji said that the photos taken last month are just a few examples of the constant burning that occurs in the pits near his base on a weekly, and sometimes even daily basis, and that the smoke often reaches a choking point as it wafts through the air.
As the first leg of the tour wraps in Jackson, MS, the sun is lower in the sky and a cool breeze wafts through the open doors of M.W. Stringer Lodge — a symbolic location choice, as it is the site where the Fannie Lou Hamer helped launch the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
But I wept when I reached the part of the book where she reprints a poem that Nelson wrote about her, titled "Morning En Route to the Hospital:" Snow wafts off the little lakealong Route 66, momentarily encasing the car in a trance of glitter Live with your puny, vulnerable selfLive with her.
Stage fog is a delicate creature: whether as haze that hangs in the air, a thicker vapor, or the low-lying kind that the lighting designer Natasha Katz calls "Brigadoon" fog — the stuff that wafts like a cloud around the actors' ankles when it's kept really cold, and rises higher when it's not.
Still, when Mr. Laskey wafts into view near the start of "As You Like It," his easeful gait as Rosalind recalls the celebrated Olivia on this same stage that the Globe's first artistic director, Mark Rylance, ended up taking in triumph to Broadway in 2013 (and for which he won a Tony the following year).
As the strains of "She Will be Loved" by Maroon 5 pour out of the stereo above the bar, as I gaze at an A2 print of an old Eire stamp, as the Irish flag wafts in the breeze above the stairwell, I march up to the counter and order an Unfinishable Breakfast and a pint of Guinness.
" At the Neuberger, this meditative, existential air wafts through such works as "No hay golero" ("There Is No Goalie," 2012), a picture of pictures (page spreads from the artist's illustrated notebooks), and "Hola" ("Hello," 1994), in which a man with a long, giraffe-like neck peeks out from a shadowy window or doorway as if to silently declare, "Look at me!
Spanning four floors and 43,055 square feet, the center, which cost €20 million (around $523 million), is designed to be an interactive and sensorial experience for visitors: The smell of chicken bubbling away in a casserole pot wafts through the space dedicated to traditional Lyonnaise cuisine, while a virtual exhibit recreates the sights and sounds of an open-air farmer's market.
Security guards stationed at the Mansion — everybody in Liberia calls it "the Mansion" — report that sometimes in the wee hours of the morning, around the time President William R. Tolbert was gutted, in pajamas and bathrobe, by men led by a successor (who would come to his own premature end), the smell of cooking food wafts through the air as ghosts prepare poor Mr. Tolbert's last meal.
The visuals run without repeating for over two hours, and include footage of him working with Joan Jonas, Theaster Gates and others; video pieces he made with Ms. Walker, Ms. Weems and Lorna Simpson; and photos from his collaborations with others, accompanied by Mr. Moran's piano playing, which wafts up spectrally from the Three Deuces' baby grand (it has player-piano capabilities, so the keys are actually playing themselves).
His images, in their oddness, exude the radical air that wafts through such iconic Japanese modernist works of the immediate postwar period as those of Tetsumi Kudō (mixed-media creations evoking wartime destruction in the nuclear age), On Kawara (whose "Bathroom" drawings (1953-54) featured peg-like, naked humans in disorienting, tiled rooms), and Shūsaku Arakawa (whose early sculptures featured corpse-like cement blobs placed in elegant, fabric-lined, coffin-like boxes).

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