Military planes flew in formation above the square, forming the symbol of the Workers Partyy of Korea – a hammer, brush and sickle, while floating banners read "Long live the invincible Korean Workers Partyy" and people held up cards saying "Protect the mother nation".
The text I've seen floating around reads: In order to safeguard the fair representation of the people at large, campaign contributions shall not be accepted by candidates for public office and/or primaries; nor shall contributions be accepted by political parties.
And mostly, wonderfully, it works; occasionally, the bullet-point lists and floating phrases read like bad verse or average rock lyrics, but Newman has a liltingly poetic rhythm, an uncanny ear for dialogue and a nicely bathetic sense of comic timing.
If you use floating objects, screen reading software may ignore them altogether or read their Alt text in the wrong order.
At the French cultural center, where looters burst water pipes and flooded the ground floor, books were left floating in the reading rooms and corridors, and a photograph of Jacques Chirac, the French president, was smashed.
Some carried a long, black tubular float that read "Stop The XL Pipeline".
As the float headed toward the grandstand on Orange Grove Boulevard, several protesters with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ran in front of the float, wearing shirts reading "SeaWorld Hurts Orcas" and waving signs urging the boycott of the amusement park.
Another caption floating over the crowd read: "eScore: 906, route to best call center agent NOW!" It's just another sign of the rise of what might be called the Scored Society.
But, really, if this is what floats your boat, read away.
For 86 minutes this man (identified elsewhere as Jake by Mr. Rivers) walks, bathes, cooks, reads, floats on a crude raft and picks through miscellaneous detritus, including photos, with only an occasional incomprehensible murmur.
(Do you think that Dahlia Lithwick and Hanna Rosin were floating the same [continue reading here]).
