Maybe he's right--he argues the pavilion "is an opportunity to project American ideals onto a grand stage"--but that's not why the largest U.S. companies are there.
The new engine was built to put more men on screen, and doing so enhances what the series is all about: it makes the player a small, observing actor against a grand stage of history.
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The eldest daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, shone alone that day, but Megawati usually shares billing with others on the grand political stage of post-Suharto Indonesia.
And for MetroPCS, it would amount to a grand exit from the stage, something they appear to want (hence their almost-merger with Sprint just a few months ago).
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You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd wandered into the wrong venue and taken your seat for a classical piano recital - all that stands before us is a plain stage and a grand piano.
World No.52 Klizan was reaching that stage of a grand slam for the first time and will face either 32nd seed Jeremy Chardy of France, who beat Murray in Cincinnati, or Australia's Matthew Ebden.
While the Houston Grand Opera will continue to stage traditional productions, the company has created a new arm, called HGOco, whose goal is to bring musical storytelling into communities that traditionally haven't been exposed to opera.
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The Bolshoi Theater is one of Russia's premier cultural institutions, best known for "Swan Lake" and the other grand classical ballets that grace its stage.
Meanwhile, in Westminster Hall there are a series of debates led by backbench MPs - topping the bill one on Yorkshire and the Tour de France, as the Conservative MP Julian Smith leads a show of political support for the decision to stage the Tour's Grand Depart in Yorkshire in 2014 (it often stages part of the race outside France).
"It's a really nice stage to show, at a Grand Slam, because it's tougher to beat these top guys, especially in three out of five sets, knowing after two sets they have a chance to get back, " he said.
And Jones is sure that in his 72nd cap in Pretoria, back where it all began on the world stage, a similar thumping does not await Grand Slam winners Wales despite their 43-17 'humiliation' last Saturday by the world champions in Bloemfontein.
As an editor at Wine Spectator magazine at the time of the Salahis' party, I was contacted by a zealous publicist for the couple, desperate to have me write about it--particularly the grand denouement, in which several UPS deliverymen took the stage to deliver Mr. Salahi some wine.
"Gosnell was known as a doctor who would perform abortions at any stage, without regard for legal limits, " the grand jury reported.
Ms. Yaukey belted out her solo number, "Shine, " deck electrician Peter Donovan gave a spirited lighting demo, which included cueing some fog, and "Billy" Joseph Harrington returned for the grand "Dream Ballet" finale, which included flying above the stage while suspended from a wire.
The announcement follows Armstrong's on-stage meltdown on Friday during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand.
He gravely regarded the vast soundstage: a baby-grand piano, painted grenadine red, had been hoisted onto a spiralling white stage.
Then it's on to the report stage of the Defamation Bill - after long days of detailed scrutiny in Grand Committee.
In the Lords, committee stage usually takes place in a committee of the whole House or in Grand Committee in the Moses Room, a large room away from the main Chamber, and rarely to other types of committee.
Then it's on to the fourth day of Report Stage consideration of the Localism Bill - the third of 12 days of Grand Committee debate on the Welfare Reform Bill will be held in a committee room upstairs.
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"Innovative stage designs seamlessly carry the audience through transitions of mood and locale for this grand, mythic journey, " said John McKay of Canada's National Post.
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"Any additional precipitation at this stage in the game is not necessarily a good thing, " said Peter Rogers in Grand Forks.
Umm Kalthoum, the grand diva of Egypt, gave one of her first performances in Cairo in 1923 on a foot-high stage at the Riche.
Ferrero, who climbed to the top of the world rankings in 2003 after winning his only Grand Slam, the French Open, will be seeking to emulate his effort of making the quarter-final stage two years ago.
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