As Robert climbed higher, cumulus clouds scrolled behind him, like a screensaver.
Like the blurred, Technicolor view of 59th Street scrolling behind Cary Grant's head, these nearly subliminal images are nestled in the DNA of film history, generic referents seen (but not heard) in countless New York movies.
At times, Clinton's hopscotch through Africa seemed like one of those vaudeville routines in which a storyteller steps to the lip of the stage to recount his trip around the world as a painted backdrop scrolls behind him: Big Ben, the Kremlin, the Taj Mahal. . .
Throw off your mantle of deceits; your cornices, pilasters, mouldings, swags, scrolls; behind them all, behind your dignified proportions, your picturesque groupings, your arts and crafts prettinesses and exaggerated techniques; behind and beyond them all hides the one I love".
More on all that below, and keep scrolling for behind-the-scenes photos of Teigen's birthday party back in December (which includes a ramen-noodle-eating Aziz Ansari).
Then, as the cables slowly guided him around the inner rim of the roof, as if he were running, a digital scroll unfurled behind him with images of some of the thousands of other torch bearers who had carried the flame during its journey around the world this spring.
It partakes of the local architectural vocabulary of its time -- boiserie, gilding, faux marbre and the rest -- yet is resolutely adapted to the customs of Judaism: the Torah scrolls stand behind a curtain in the Ark; men and women worship separately; the whole decorative scheme is devoid of graven images.
Plus, scroll down for some behind-the-scenes photos of him eating soup dumplings in Chinatown with Baauer and his brother and hailing a cab to his gig at Manhattan venue Le Poisson Rouge.
Some Foleys were issued with a drop ribbon– the ribbon was extended, folded through the bar mount on the scroll, then dropped behind the eagle pendant and cut in a swallowtail.
