When I got to Bergdorf's shoe salon, which was agreeably mobbed with demanding young women with shoe boxes spilling open at their feet, I felt better.
There is the promise of light breaking out too, along that slow river's turn – this is the only hint of Whistler to be found – and then in the sky, which seems to crack apart with a clap of God's hands rather in the way that the 19th-century apocalyptic painter John Martin used to cause his skies to spill open with all the promise of light's redeeming flood.
But for some reason, as we gather round the table to celebrate the pilgrims, common sense flies out the window and we gorge until our jeans spilt open.
If the roll comes loose or spills open, re-wrap it and secure the ends in place by spearing the roll with a toothpick.
That event made me think I should bookend the narrative with twin oil spills — opening with the Exxon Valdez wreck, in 1989, and closing, more or less, with the Deepwater Horizon. Lee Raymond, the former C.E.O., claimed that Exxon Mobil didn't want the government's help; it just wanted government to stay out of the way.
In one stroke, his "View" unclenched the self-obsessed city and spilled it open like a briefcase.
During the hearings today in the case, tensions between the prosecution, the defense and the judge spilled into open court, with Rusty Hardin, Andersen's chief lawyer, arguing that his client was being prevented from presenting its defense.
Before his death, Vaughan had taken part in many crashes, where blood had spilled from open wounds while semen jerked from his mutilated penis and the seats were smeared with excrement.
Haiti has been engulfed in violence for the past two weeks as political unrest has spilled into open rebellion against President Aristide, a former parish priest who, his opponents say, rigged the country's last elections in 2000.
That clash between José Mourinho and Brendan Rodgers seemed emblematic of a thrillingly spiky night when Chelsea reached Wembley, the undercurrent of bad feeling between the two teams frequently spilled into open combat and Diego Costa went far enough the Football Association may feel compelled to act.
