Inside, he slouches in a kitchen chair, like a tire deflating.

NEWYORKER: Lives in Limbo

Carla Devade is in her apartment, sitting on a chair in the kitchen, doing nothing.

NEWYORKER: Labyrinth

Evert, wearing a turquoise top and white pants, sat in a chair in the kitchen facing Navratilova, who was in black pants and a purple sweater open at the neck, where a gold necklace, on loan from Storm, winked in the lights.

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Her father had somehow ambulated in from the den, and was arranged sideways at the kitchen table, his bright-white cast propped on a second chair.

NEWYORKER: Soldier��s Joy

At the time, no one except, presumably, the cook cared that the kitchen was hot and smelly, or that she had to climb onto a chair or a stepladder to fetch the plates, or crouch on the floor to reach into the cabinets where she kept her pots and pans.

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