Such a posture also helps flatten the culture — reduces the culture to memes, if you will; we float from one "trending topic" to another.
"They offered us gearing when we floated, saying if we took on £100m, the business would be worth only £80m less, so we could take out £20m as a special dividend.
The third story is cantilevered out over the two floors below it, so that it felt as if we were floating in space.
Ms. Winthrop's choreography is offset by Maria Antelman's video of cracked earth, swooping birds, water and, most effectively, leafy tree limbs passing by as if we were floating underneath them.
"It was like falling off a bike," McVie says when I meet her in her south London apartment, a beautiful space situated so close to the banks of the Thames that it feels as if we're floating above it.
The radio was playing (bluegrass, a taste we'd acquired since moving out here to the heart of the country), and we had the windows rolled down to enjoy the breeze we were generating as the car humped through the cornfields and over a series of gently rolling hills that made us feel as if we were floating.
We feel left out in the cold, as if we're floating above the heads of those we yearn to be connected to, out there on our own so to speak.
And what we did was we listened to some financial advisers who told us absolutely that if we didn't float on the stock market our company was going to die".
