Tonight, the man who fell to earth and then 25 years later floated himself on the stock market, David Bowie.
Except for Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, who has floated himself as a potential presidential candidate, none of the likely contenders have yet been willing to directly take on Mr. Cruz, a recognition of the affection for the senator among members of the party's grass-roots base.
"A cell seven feet square is very constricting, but if the cell were seven feet high, making a volume of 343 cubic feet, and if the man inside it could float around, reorienting himself however he wanted — curling up on the ceiling if he got tired of the floor — the space would seem much bigger".
There is a narrative, but it swims murkily, the way Clune himself "floated like an astronaut in the white world".
Rumors of his impending resignation have surfaced with great regularity (some of them, it seems, floated by Hulten himself).
On a short list that Mr. Kerry himself floated last spring, two of the four names were those of Republican senators, John McCain of Arizona and John W. Warner of Virginia.
And he should never find himself floating in a sea of statistics as he did when he compared 49ers receiver Jerry Rice and three Hall of Famers.
When, for example, he finds himself floating in a flimsy kayak above a pod of orca that is regrouping for a choregraphed kill, he doesn't paddle off pathetically, as you or I might.
An observer en route to Tobolsk, in Siberia, found himself floating in ice up to his waist when his carriage fell through the frozen river they were traveling in lieu of a road.
He had been asked to resign by the court-appointed creditors committee, but he had floated the idea himself as far back as November when the company was negotiating its failed merger with its energy rival, Dynegy.
