As the sun pounded voters, they gulped water, ate pizza, unfolded chairs and opened umbrellas, courtesy of the Obama campaign.
They stood on Shafer's lawn in groups of two and three, and, when a light rain began, they opened umbrellas.
In addition, all five of the free-standing portraits of René Magritte have raised and opened umbrellas, which add height.
Yet the two men essentially missed, failed to engage, the broad opened umbrellas merely grazing in a rubbery wet shudder as they passed.
So are the plastic fishing-boat chairs, the opened umbrellas, and the full-length mirrors in cardboard armoires that rest on dollies.
Some fans opened umbrellas and sat through the surprise shower, which fell over the first and second levels of seats behind home plate.
A few pursued television cameramen with opened umbrellas trying to block their shots — a comical dance that was shown on CNN and the BBC.
One group of marble sculptures replicates his small daughter's indoor dens and hideaways, built from an ad-hoc arrangements of stools, paint tins, opened umbrellas, a laundry drying rack and piles of books, all hidden under draped bedsheets.
And James Fallows in the Atlantic Monthly published a message from a reader in Hong Kong: "When we felt threatened, we opened umbrellas and raised our hands".
