A collective squeal goes up, and in they run from all sides, sheets fluttering, baguettes jostling in tote bags: a rush hour to rival the one on nearby Avenue of the Americas.
On Friday, election observers sounded despondent, saying that the official tallying centers looked like disaster zones, with ballots dumped in the mud and the supposedly sacrosanct tabulation sheets fluttering loose in the wind.
One cannot miss the hundreds of thousands of people with cloth of the colour pinned to their coats and satchels; the stickers pasted on street poles and storefront mannequins; and the sheets fluttering from balconies and windows.
Just as shaking out a bedsheet creates waves fluttering down the sheet, the up and down forces create spiraling warps in the rings.
Gently, almost floating in the wind, sheets of paper fluttered down over the scene of destruction.
From a distance his work Blind Gate, included in his current show, seems no more than two large sheets of white paper, fluttering against the wall they're pinned to.
For many of the businesses, the only things to survive the collapse were millions of sheets of paper that fluttered to the ground only to be scooped up and thrown away in the aftermath.
The fluttering, looping, and tumbling motions of falling sheets of paper and other flat objects have fascinated thinkers since the 19th century, when famed Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell studied falling cards.
