Although barred from serving a second term, the governor is rushing through Mexican campaign rituals like presiding over ceremonies for new roads and drinking water systems as well as making promises for a better tomorrow.
She was transported to another realm, a kind of fairy kingdom where she could have anything she desired: wealth, beauty, a spectacular wardrobe, a winning bridge hand, cream-filled chocolates with zero calories, and love whenever she wanted it, which was most of the time, even when she was doing other things, like presiding over a royal banquet or reviewing the palace guard.
"In a way, it's like presiding at your own wake," he quipped.
Otherwise, it's a theatrical display, a happening, of fantastical creatures and all kinds of creepy objects, hybrids of animal and human bodies flying in the air; there's a serpent-like dragon presiding in the middle and upper half breathing out endless other smaller creatures instead of breathing fire".
As has been demonstrated elsewhere, large corporations don't like courts presided over by judges, as they almost always lose.
Mr Mitchell, unlike Mr Holbrooke, speaks quietly with no big stick in reserve.Nor is there much evidence that the settlement over which he would like to preside requires the parties in Ulster to abandon finally any long-held aspirations that are in conflict with an aspiration of the other side.
Indeed, the central conundrum he presents is how such an overgrown boy, who still has his childhood collection of Hot Wheels cars and has never seen a Hawaiian shirt he didn't like, can preside over a multi-billion-dollar empire.
It is also the name of Mr. Reali's caramel-colored drink, a swirl of bourbon, syrup and citrus, and one of the liquid creations at the Gibson, a hard to find but easy to like bar presided over by a doorman with an anxiety-inducing list of names of those who were clever enough to make reservations.
One grandee, Mitchell reports, "liked to preside over a group of artists and three or four prostitutes, locked up in a room together for several days with two or three cases of wine, a ham, a bucket, and a mattress".
"She's like the presiding spiritual genius of folk to me," he told the Wire in 2001.
Five hundred years ago, the Medici lavished money on artists like Michelangelo, presiding over a spectacular flowering of the arts that helped make Florence a great Italian cultural center.
