In March 1990 Master-Sergeant Samuel Doe, the president, made a speech on its balcony calling on Nigeria to help put down an uprising led by Charles Taylor, an exiled American Liberian.
Occasional banners on balconies calling for Eta prisoners to be moved to jails nearer to home show where some sympathies lie.
In 2010, agents showed up at his apartment in Tucson after a neighbor spotted a Hezbollah flag hanging from his balcony and called the police.
Looking up at the balcony, Obama called out, "Good luck, Captain — and make sure to Instagram it!" One wonders which brother's year he would rather have — blasting off into space, or lobbying Congress — and which promises a trip to the stranger planet.
I loved the "Pretty Woman" romance of the New York tableau, the president, who had not lived an entitled life where he could afford such lavish gestures, throwing off his tie and whisking his wife, in a flirty black cocktail dress, to sip martinis in Manhattan, as Sasha hung over a White House balcony and called out goodbye.
Looking up at the balcony, Obama called out, "Good luck, Captain — and make sure to Instagram it!" One wonders which brother's year he would rather have—blasting off into space, or lobbying Congress and which promises a trip to the stranger planet.
Internal balconies, also called galleries, were constructed in Gothic churches to accommodate singers.
He couldn't have gone out on the balcony to call for help, and that fan still be where it was.
Then, as it began to get dark, my father – the sort of man I dared not disobey – would come out onto the balcony, and call – Iaaannnn!
There are some good blogs about people growing salads on balconies – one is called Life on the Balcony.
