In today's NYTimes there's an article about D.D. Allen, a designer
(whatever happened to the term "interior decorator") who's designed huge
living spaces for clients but who now prefers to live in very small
spaces herself. At the start of one of the paragraphs, a Joni phrase is
used, even including the comma:

"The designer has looked at size from both sides, now. In
the late 1970's, she and Joe Allen, the Manhattan-based
restaurateur, bought a rambling seven-bedroom 1820 house in
Dorset, Vt. "That cured both of us from wanting a large
house," said Mr. Allen..."

For people curious about the topic in general, the whole article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/garden/19ALLE.html

So, apparently "looked at [whatever] from both sides, now" is becoming
part of the language (in the U.S. anyway), along with "paved paradise"
and as someone mentioned recently, words from Circle Game, although I
can't remember the exact phrase now. 

Debra Shea

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