This morning, Maath's coffin was wrapped in blankets and tied to the roof of a white Volkswagen sedan.
One Sunday morning, on Tremont Avenue, we waved to a young bride and groom gleefully shouting from the sun roof of a white stretch limousine.
Winds of 115 miles an hour streamed across the roof of the white courthouse, where today the emergency operations director, Robert LeBlanc, 80, known as the General, marched around in a jumpsuit, almost proud of the beating his town took.
The box effect is heightened by blacked-out pillars that create a floating roof of optional white or silver in the manner of the Mini or two-tone cars of the 1950s.
Mr. Clinton, for instance, asked him to consider running a foundation in Harlem that would employ youngsters and cut energy costs by painting the roofs of buildings white to reflect sunlight.
What legends of Metro history I could glean only reinforced this impression, making the vaulted roofs of hygienic white tile seem like a coating of soothing whitewash over ulcerous cavities.
A sun-drenched composition of the scalloped, slanting roofs of a white building, at right, is inflected by a distant view of seashore umbrellas, at left, marching along a band of sand topped by a strip of sea and then the sky.
As we drove through some of Le Perche's dozen villages (and many more tiny communes), here and there were ocher stone houses with red-tiled roofs and herds of white cows on dazzling green pastures.
We look at our boards, strapped to the roof of Jason, Ed's white Ambassador car, the design of which has changed little since its creation in 1958.
On the roof of a gleaming white addition that opened in 2005, El Mirador (The Lookout") seems to float above Madrid's grandest quarter.
