As waters rise, crowded with escaped zoo animals, mannequins, and ghosts, the protagonist muses, "How strange the way we wade into disaster, step after step, not realizing how far we've gone until we're drowning".
I chose to join a slightly later-to-rise crowd around 7 30 a.m. at Yoder's Restaurant, a small and homey spot that serves sweet-tooth-friendly peanut-butter-pie pancakes topped with homemade whipped cream.
Before the physical contact, Mr. Berman had stepped increasingly closer to Mr. Sherman as the two tried to talk above the rising crowd.
His box rises, the crowd rises, the mound rises, the nation rises.
Near Second Avenue, there are condominiums with tinted glass walls — cousins to the commercial high-rises crowding Third and Lexington Avenues.
Many big projects, however, are erected in helter-skelter fashion, sometimes with as many as 50 look-alike high-rises crowded onto a single plot.
The game now generates huge interest, can boast rising crowds and is enjoying growing participation at all levels.
TdFHUB2014, the company set up to oversee the £27m budget for the three English stages of Le Tour, started with £2m of rainy-day cash but has been drawing down that money to cover rising crowd-control costs.
With rising crowds and the Football Association raising concerns over the suitability of The Nest, the club considered renovation, but ultimately decided on a move to Carrow Road.
But already doubting voices rise from crowd.
"Rise," a crowd pleaser set to songs by U2, is part cheerleader, part "Glee" routine and spills over with false spontaneity.
