Her big, sketchy paintings, in which partial figures -- arms, legs and heads -- appear in watery, melting outline, are quite mild, though, referring to cowgirls hanging out, soaring on a swing and engaging in more static pursuits.
Across the way, coatless children soared on playground swings and frolicked on the monkey bars, watched by mothers sprung for the day from stuffy winter quarters.
Some of that day's most vivid imagery appears in the movie: there are snippets from real television news reports, but there's also an aestheticized re-creation of a falling man that's mirrored, with stunning imbecility, by a shot of Oskar joyfully soaring into the air on a swing.
A few will soar on their own.
She shares a well-worn leather book filled with snapshots of summer delights: a young girl with coffee skin mugs for the camera while soaring upward on a backyard swing; a pale-skinned host "sister" readies herself for a dive into the pool; two girls in pajamas share a favorite bedtime book; partygoers crowd around a cake inscribed in icing with the words "Fresh Air Fund".
At such moments, Acker comes into his own, operating with tautness and delicacy; he seems engaged less by giant, routine detonations than by the marvellous scene in a cavernous library, staffed by a pair of twittering archivists with socks on their heads, where 9 and his comrades soar up to the shelves, on a swinging arm, in a bid to track down the secret of their survival.
Your mother was perched on a swing, gently swaying back and forth as you soared above her, when she noticed a young Bengali woman in a sari, wearing vermillion in her hair.
And British Airways' shares soared on Friday, even after it swung to a surprising loss in its first half as record high oil prices ate into its revenues and demand for its fares declined.
You're belly-down on a swing.
(Stephane Sednaoui) You were on a swing!
