At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me.
"I volunteer as tribute!" (The Hunger Games) At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me.
Barnstorming straight into an epic performance of "Bandlands," "No Surrender," "The Promised Land," "Backstreets," "Because the Night" and new classics like "Lonesome Day" and "The Rising," Springsteen entered the crowd, touched hands, blew kisses and refused to stop.
And this trend for lavish spending is catching on, as the international-jetsetting crowd touch down in Russia's glitziest city.
As a teenager, Dr. Fridrich saw a man demonstrating the Rubik's Cube at a mathematics seminar, and scrambled defiantly through a crowd to touch it.
The scrolls were on stretchers covered with white cloths, and men in yarmulkes and the broad felt hats of Hasidic sects pushed through the crowd to touch them briefly.
Photograph: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images 12.39pm BST A little child is lifted above the crowd to touch El Rocio's Virgin which is carried through the streets of Almonte during the annual pilgrimage in the south of Spain.
As I walked behind her amid the trudging crowd, I touched a fingertip to my lips, the lips that had kissed hers, half expecting to find them changed in some infinitely subtle but momentous way... like the day itself, that had been sombre and wet and hung with big-bellied clouds when we were going into the picture-house and now at evening was all tawny sunlight and raked shadows.
"They have no sense of fair play this Spanish crowd, Chris Nicholl touched nothing but the ball but they were screaming at the referee to try and influence his decision.
The teens finished in 14th and 15th place, but the crowd -- touched by the scene -- gave the pair a standing ovation.
