What was left was a scene frozen in time, a still-life of the moment horror interrupted everyday life.
In fact all the factors that caused the 2007-8 crisis are currently reappearing on the scene – frozen or low incomes, low productivity, asset inflation especially in housing, a hands-off government turning a blind eye to loose credit expansion and City speculation, and a growing debt bubble.
And then the blond guy gave me the finger, and the scene froze, five seconds, 10.
At their wedding, Angelica proposes a toast, and the scene freezes as we enter her inner thoughts.
The scene freezes: me, staring at the word AMBIEN, yelling to the girls about boots, running in slow motion to the bathroom.
For one long minute the scene froze; photographers were silenced, his family held their breath and his solicitor was poised to usher him back inside.
Others show them with wives and children -- scenes frozen in a back yard or on vacation, like John swinging a golf club at the DuPont World Amateur Golf Tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Illustrated adverts for cosmetics or domestic products were often constructed as tableaus, offering scenes frozen in motion centred upon young women, wives, or mothers in the act of dressing, washing, shopping, or conversing.
In a small chapel off the main lobby, sailors may have said a prayer for safe passage, bathed in the colorful light of biblical scenes frozen in stained glass.
The scene freezes, and an article from The Washington Times, headlined "Aides Concede Gore Made Up Story" is superimposed.
It was like a Dickensian scene – freezing, dark, dusty, a couple of guys playing cards on the floor, and there she is, starkers, in the stock room, oblivious to what's going on around her.
