Others, no less predictably, were bemused by this lavish gesture to the best horse in the race.
The lavish gesture saw the words "I am sorry Daniel Clowes" written in the Los Angeles sky on New Year's Day– a stunt that the 27-year old promptly snapped and tweeted along with three definitions of the word "cloud".
And if funds don't run to such a lavish gesture, the manual advises that the same effect can be achieved with a shared bay window, or even the use of dummy windows to hide the party wall.
I loved the "Pretty Woman" romance of the New York tableau, the president, who had not lived an entitled life where he could afford such lavish gestures, throwing off his tie and whisking his wife, in a flirty black cocktail dress, to sip martinis in Manhattan, as Sasha hung over a White House balcony and called out goodbye.
Mr. Usmanov has made lavish philanthropic gestures in the last year, buying the art and antique collection of the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and his widow, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, and donating it to the state.
"Rubies" was dominated by Teresa Reichlen's account of the second ballerina, whom she makes its mistress of ceremonies, turning in one knee across another (with a lavish downward arm gesture) with the same inscrutable authority as elsewhere she hurls a leg to the sky.
Everything Enron did had to be better and flashier -- from the new business ventures it unveiled nearly every year to the way it celebrated Secretaries' Day with gifts of Waterford crystal -- and no gesture seemed too lavish, workers and competitors agree.
As his guests trickled out onto the deck, he joked, gesturing toward a lavish catered buffet, that he had spent hours in the kitchen.
These days, they may do it by lavishing millions on politics, a gesture that appears to be even more wasteful.
His best pieces (including above all, for me, his maps of the United States, which are lavished with inexhaustible eruptions of inspired gesture and piquant color) bring maximum emotional energy to bear on subjects of minimum personal significance; and they keep his cleverness busy making crucial structural decisions.
Equally vibrant but more rigorously scripted, the newly composed "Will to Adorn" evoked Zora Neale Hurston's essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression" with a lavish charm bracelet of exuberant shades and explosive gestures.
