The statue, amusingly entitled Winds of Change, depicts the elder Bush with his jacket over his shoulder and his bronze tie flying back in the wind.
As she drove past, one of the screens flapped back in the wind to reveal hundreds of German tanks lined up and facing Poland.
Pink Floyd's creative director Aubrey Powell picked a lighter and more dreamlike piece to grace the cover: a single man, his white shirt unbuttoned and blowing back in the wind, paddling a Thames skiff across a sea of clouds.
When Amma makes a new friend, who bends to her whims like the roller-skating accomplices back in Wind Gap, Camille takes notice.
There have been significant problems in the UK's renewable energy market in recent months, with the withdrawal or postponement of plans for some major offshore wind developments and the announcement by the German company RWE npower that it would dramatically scale back its investments in wind in the UK.
"They are just part of our rich wildlife, right back to Wind in the Willows, that we need to look after and protect.
Then we'd drift on for an hour or four, reading and sunbathing, chatting and taking pictures, pulling out the headsail when the wind picked up and rolling it back in when the wind died.
It is the irony of modern times that soon after I returned home, the terror that seemed to blow at my back in the desert wind blasted New York, my home city.
And when she does — "a pretty girl in a blue dress, head thrown back, the wind in her hair as she passed overhead" — the moment is pure ecstasy.
Still, it's put the wind back in Monfils's sails a bit.
On stage, Mo'Nique gives thanks to Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American performer to ever win an Academy Award (for Gone With the Wind, back in 1939).
