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- And so it was that my wife and I sat down for lunch with Buffett in a cozy, wood-paneled alcove of the Manhattan steakhouse Smith Wollensky.
- Refusing a table in the alcove reserved for rank, General "Ike" joined a line of junior officers at the cafeteria.
- The experience begins before a single plate is served, with the setting: a tatami-mat room, bare save for the tokonoma, the alcove in the corner that displays a single scroll of .