World diplomacy took a feathery but firm direction last weekend with the celebration of International Pillow Fight Day in Washington Square. Students from nearby NYU took a modern movement to a mosh pit of mirth. Comfy cushions were swung and sploofed with enthusiastic delight as pillows flew high in the air creating a snowstorm of fluff. Get the corporate sponsor brought a deluge of down on Dacron while droning surveillance from overhead captured all the action.

Gladiators, martial artists, superheroes and children squared off until laughter brought them undone – although Nixon was smiling throughout. Putin, bare chested on horseback would not have been out of place, and just think of the photo opportunities…!