As placard-wearing musicians banged drums and blew trumpets in demonstrations throughout Times Square, theatergoers lined up at box offices to seek refunds or exchanges, and both sides in the labor dispute refused to budge.
Workers had watched but not tried to step in as placards were strung between giant machines.
Its greater soccer days are behind it, as placards of black and white photographs, and the 4-0 home defeat to Chelsea on Monday, perhaps showed.
It may not be "Sayonara nukes", as placards demanded in 2012, but sayonara to a fleeting moment of serious public protest.(Picture credit: AFP).
Online, there was more dissent: on one social-media site a young Tamil man from the peninsula derided the banners as "placards of war triumphalism with 'father of the nation' flattery taglines".
At the protest in front of Zuma's office, young people raised hand-lettered signs that mocked Zuma as well as placards connecting their demonstration with the struggles of South Africa's past.
A group of veiled women wailed in grief as placards showing the pale, bloody face of a baby boy shot in the head on Tuesday bobbed above the crowd.
Before the day was over, though, the protesters had the last laugh, as placards echoing their demands were waved by fans inside the grounds, several leading players voiced their support for the protests and the authorities in some parts of Brazil started to back away from the planned increases in bus fares that were the initial catalyst for the demonstrations.
On Wednesday, Funny or Die released a satire called "Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie"; an anti-Trump Super PAC could promulgate dozens more movies, as well as placards, video games, and Snapchats designed to appeal to every sub-demographic.
Ahmad Jalal is a Syrian artist and activist whose drawings have been widely used as placards in his hometown of Kafrnabel in demonstrations against Bashar al-Assad's regime.
He comes off not as a person endowed with any psychological complexity but as a cardboard cutout of a hero, ready to be held up as a placard for a cause without any substance of his own beside the cause for which he stands.
