All this has proved too much for a handful of audience members who have, according to reports, fainted.
(These shares weren't worth much, and a handful of wealthy private buyers often managed to collect the majority of them).
When one speaks of Zwirner the gallerist, one is speaking as much of a handful of women in their forties who have been with the gallery fifteen or more years.
But they were frequently slow to note when technology didn't work, or markets didn't exist, and they relied far too much on a handful of self-interested bankers for information.
There's not much there: a handful of promo posts for the film festival in the weeks leading up to it, a couple of embedded music videos, a link to a Times Op-Ed about peak oil, a little gallery of photographs from the festival's after-party.
Jennifer Capriati, displaying the exuberant power and joie de vivre which saw her win her first grand slam title in the Australian Open this year, once again proved far too much of a handful for Martina Hingis, now the world No1 in name only, to reach tomorrow's French Open final with a comprehensive 6-4, 6-3 victory at Roland Garros yesterday.
So how much of a handful is thing going to be?
Quite how much of a handful became immediately apparent in the first round when the 28-year-old southpaw burst out of the blue corner and started throwing flurries of combinations behind his strong right jab.
At its thickest point the new Incredible comes in at 11.7mm — a far cry from the slim waistlines of HTC's One S or the iPhone 4S, but it never feels like too much of a handful.
