The former junior senator from New York's arrival is captured in slow motion as dance music plays and the winking candidate causes an overhead lamp to explode, shooting sparks from the ceiling.
The Nelson chairs, Eames tables and Kagan sofas and lamps he peddled from the back of his battered pickup truck helped spark a market in what became known as vintage or "retro" furnishings.
Suddenly, the man had the lamp upside down and was unscrewing piece after piece, pointing at wires and fuses (maybe?) and spark plugs (maybe not?) and all of the magical components that make electricity go zap.
As part of an effort to spark night life near Philadelphia's cultural institutions, two design companies have added spotlights and street lamps along one mile of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which links City Hall and the Museum of Art.
But protracted set changes and tetchy equipment, including a briefly unattended lamp that sputtered angry white sparks, caused substantial delays.
Liz opens her eyes and the sparks die out; she is back where she was, things reassembling around her — bookshelf, secretary, radiator, carpet, floor lamps.
Bedside lamps going dark.
