It can be seen on shop signs for washing machines and on banners draped between sycamores greening the jammed streets.
Iranian television suggested that millions turned out across the country, showing pictures of jammed streets in every city.
The event brings millions of Swiss francs into the local economy, but the locals have to put up with jammed streets, security restrictions and sometimes high-handed visitors.
When federal security police raided a television station that is his severest critic, ostensibly looking for fiscal misdeeds, thousands of Georgians jammed streets to demand his resignation.
Shops and restaurants were shuttered and the almost complete absence of taxis and other vehicles made the normally jammed streets eerily calm.
They were delayed in a backup for about 10 minutes on Canal Street -- a mistake, Ms. Daumas said -- but still made it to Times Square in good time, considering the jammed streets.
Stu, by contrast, is the everyman who journeys into the dark night — now, the jammed streets and clubs of Bangkok — on his way to enlightenment, though more likely another sequel.
In a city where the ordinarily jammed streets had light traffic for a second straight day, residents confided that they were ordering enough bread to last two or three days, stockpiling a staple in expectation of street fighting in the days ahead.
RIYADH — The normally jammed streets of Riyadh were largely empty Friday, the first day of the Saudi weekend, as police and national guard officers blocked off scores of major streets around the cemetery where King Abdullah was buried.
The next day, with the lid closed, the coffin was borne through jammed streets aboard a black hearse decorated with flags and black plumes and drawn by a team of 16 horses shrouded in black.
"We had hoped this would happen, that people would answer the call and stay out of their cars," said Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, after a 30-minute tour in which he pointed at normally jammed streets and highways and circled twice over the bridge whose demolition this weekend was the cause of the shutdown.
