One recent Saturday, Javier Plascencia, the leading chef in a movement seeking to rehabilitate the city's reputation through its food, idled his car, a green Jeep Wrangler with a paper cutout of the Virgin of Guadalupe wedged into the instrument panel, in front of a stall.
The words "here we mark the price of freedom" are engraved in a low stone panel in front of the wall, but the dead are not identified by name, and there are no images of war anywhere in the memorial, except in some small decorative basreliefs by the sculptor Raymond Kaskey.
The one I tried was the most everyday type -- a cheap, light-blue polyester affair with a vast pleated skirt that descended from a tight-fitting cap, a small mesh panel in front of the eyes providing the only light and air.
Instead there's a sliding panel in front of the windscreen to access various reservoirs.
When all groups have finished researching their topics, ask one member of each group to represent it on a panel in front of the room.
Beatrice thinks of the old cartoons where an illustrator would draw two panels of background, a desert or a pine forest, and then, by bringing one panel in front of the other, he could repeat it and repeat it and repeat it, a duplicated landscape that Wile E. Coyote could run through without end.
The second time I interviewed him, it was as part of a panel in front of an audience of hundreds at the University of Houston, and he brought a fruit cup and a bottle of Sprite onstage.
There's a big panel in front of you.
He was leading Marin Cilic 7-6 (7-3) 3-4 when he kicked a panel in front of Andrew McDougall's seat, injuring him.
