In the narrow city streets draped in flags and shawls, a hush followed the gigantic flower-covered silver float, borne by a couple dozen men, carrying the consecrated host.
I was thrilled by the crowds, the noise of the el, the silver sunlight floating down from so far away.
The film of the silver giant floating in the sky, then suddenly catching fire and crumpling to the ground, and the emotional recorded dispatch from the scene of the radio reporter Herbert Morrison — "Oh, the humanity!"— retains a jaw-dropping power.
The leadup to the Christian Dior autumn 2013 show on Friday was extraordinary — one of those moments of high-society air kissing — made more dramatic by the giant silver balloons floating overhead.
Three days after Adam was beaten and tortured to death, a group walking by the Grand Union canal in town found a black plastic bag wrapped in silver tape, floating in the water.
But one person who saw the two-and-a-half-foot-high cylindrical steel container with Williams's head, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was told that the several silver packets floating in liquid nitrogen above the head were tissue samples of Williams to be harvested for DNA.
And on a 1992 folding screen by the artist Jonathan Shackleton, Lower Manhattan is transformed into an elegant, abstract, Never-Never Land design, with the twin towers picked out in indigo silhouette on a gold leaf ground, and a silver moon floating in the sky.
"There's these silver pieces just floating in the air".
Thus dancers moving among floating silver pillows designed by Andy Warhol in "RainForest" unexpectedly suggest tropical luxuriance.
STEP inside the Shops at Georgetown Park, a shopping mall in Washington, D.C., and you'll find two nine-foot-tall flippers and a giant floating silver ball.
