Corsi squirmed in her seat in an effort to reach her phaser while sitting in the cramped booth.

His move last January to Jackson&Wheeler, a dimly lighted informal restaurant with small linen-topped tables and a few cramped booths, raised expectations.

Standing at her cramped booth, her knapsack on the chair because there's no time to sit, she hands out work assignments with offers of cookies.

The couple had worked together at the cramped booth, selling purses, scarves and jewelry, for eight or nine years.

Larger groups spilled from the rather cramped booths onto makeshift islands of tables, around which the hearty young waiters zipped and zoomed like skateboarders in heavy traffic.

With startling grace he sprang from the cramped booth.

Inside a cramped, glassed-in booth overlooking the skating rink, the 64-year-old Mr. Brokaw betrayed no hint of any such drama.

Mr. Blitzer, 48, now works 14-hour days from CNN's cramped booth in the White House pressroom.

Daniel was waiting in a cramped booth, along with a girl.