We passed a house with a shattered plate-glass window.
"I heard a rumble and at first I thought it was the Concorde," he said as he stepped over some shattered plates.
Ingo Maurer, who has designed chandeliers of shattered plates and light bulbs with bird wings, is using 10 OLED panels in a table lamp in the shape of a tree.
Nearby, residents of less-damaged buildings waited for repair workers to replace their shattered plate-glass windows.
We had somehow missed the sign out front that promised "plate breaking" (they had us at "air conditioning"), but we soon clue in to the old custom, now mostly reserved for tourists, and the kids gleefully shatter plates on the pavement.
A gleefully destructive indoor car chase follows, punctuated by shattering plate-glass windows, toppling mannequins and the Brothers' matter-of-fact commentary on the mall they're wrecking.
Monday, knocking 53 mobile homes from their foundations in Chalfant Valley, shattering plate-glass windows in downtown Bishop and briefly trapping 300 campers at the Pleasant Valley Reservoir northwest of here.
In my late twenties, I once shattered every plate and glass in the kitchen in an outburst of rage and jealousy.
Last March, after she voted for the health-care law, someone shattered the plate-glass door of her Tucson office.
And of course it was fun just to see television pundits who think they are part of the same media version of the Algonquin Round Table as Mr. Stewart lose their cool when he tore off the tablecloth and shattered the plates.
