The only light came from little spots along the ceiling, one every five or six feet.
Inside, photos of Ms. Shamoon hung from the ceiling: one of her in a Santa suit, one showing her scuba diving, another capturing her flaunting a fake mustache.
"While I was driving through the tunnel, concrete pieces suddenly started falling from the ceiling," one man told public broadcaster NHK.
At opposite sides of the gallery two spherical sculptures by John Miller hang from the ceiling, one covered with excremental-brown paint and tiny plastic figures, the other with daisies — creating a conversation across the room.
"Today, all the Saudi women are recognizing that you broke the ceiling one more time for Saudi women, and we thank you for that," Ms. Obaid said to Mr. Annan at the news conference.
She recalled bouncing around so hard to Blondie's Heart Of Glass in the house she shared soon after graduation that she and her mates brought down a chandelier from the ceiling – one made, as luck would have it, of glass.
"MGM painted the ceiling, one of the L.A. movie companies, and they were able to create the atmosphere, so it's really important to keep it the bustles and boas era," Gold Dust owner Nick Bovis told SF Weekly.
As operative onlookers crowded William and Charles' surgical suites, mirrors were installed on the ceilings, and one-legged, mobile instrument stands were designed to best accommodate a surgical arena in which floor space was tight [ 19].
"There were major problems with the ceilings, for one.
The ceilings collapsed," one witness at the airport said, according to the AP.
