This measure was taken "as a precaution", an official said, to avoid conflicts between aircraft and the five police helicopters hovering over the siege scene.
For a couple of seconds, an aura of mystery hovered over the scene.
Wayal Himouni, a 32-year-old construction worker, said the helicopters hovered over the scene for about five minutes.
A police helicopter hovered over the scene and, for reasons they would not disclose, officers searched for a green 1994 Nissan Maxima.
But this is still an effective evening in the theatre: Thulani Davis's libretto provides revealing contrasts not only between black and white characters but between the mere mortals and the African deities who hover over the scene, all helped by Sam Helfrich's deft direction, which places this mythic story within a jarring contemporary context.
With stereophotographs, viewers could see the monuments of Paris and London, or great sights of nature like Niagara Falls or the Alps, in all their majesty and depth — with an uncanny verisimilitude that made them feel as if they were hovering over the actual scenes.
There is other heartbreak hovering over Ms. Mansour's decorous, deliberate scenes.
NewsCopter 7 was on the scene, hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge, taking pictures of the police activity below.
From the lobby's historical oak walls to the contemporary art hovering over the mantels, it was a scene taken straight from Paris, a city that has perfected the idea of aligning old with new.
They arrived on the scene like Valkyries hovering over the battlefield in search of corpses".
