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I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room while re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated.
In large, formal homes, a sitting room is often a small private living area adjacent to a bedroom, such as the Queens' Sitting Room and the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House. [ 4 ] In the late 19th or early 20th century, Edward Bok advocated using the term living room for the room then commonly called a parlo[u]r or drawing room , and is ...
The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room") [2] [3] is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable and is ...
The term drawing room is not used as widely as it once was, and tends to be used in Britain only by those who also have other reception rooms, such as a morning room, a 19th-century designation for a sitting room, often with east-facing exposure, suited for daytime calls, or the middle-class lounge, a late-19th-century designation for a room in ...
"Sittin' Up in My Room" is a song by American recording artist Brandy. It was written and produced by Babyface and recorded by Norwood for the soundtrack of the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale , starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett .
Harold Pinter's play The Room (1957) is a "kitchen sink" drama evoking the squalor and social depression of the bed-sitting room culture of the time. British comedian Tony Hancock was the performer of the sole character in "The Bedsitter" (Hancock 1961) by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the BBC, a depiction of the boredom of bedsit existence.
A sitting room, living room, or parlour is a place for social visits and entertainment. One decorated to appeal to a man might be called a man cave ; in an older style, the cabinet was used by men who wanted a separate room.
The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; [9] thus we see the 16th-century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strong-box or jewel-chest than a display-case. [10]