Its length was an innovation, for in its original production it began in the late afternoon, paused for a dinner intermission, and resumed at the hour when most plays begin.
"I am stuck," Krista told me one afternoon, pausing as she and her sister made their way back to the bathroom, where they wanted to play with the faucets.
Peering from a window, he watches his parents, who have just gone out for the evening, pause long enough to make intense, furtive love against a wall.
"There are the arguments, the tantrums, the squabbling, the making up in the morning (pause for dramatic effect)... and that's just Nick and Vince".
Two hoses still snaked from a dripping fire hydrant, and a giant orange earth-moving vehicle that was scooping up debris earlier Sunday morning paused for the service.
"José María is here as an ambassador for Nespresso," Montgomerie told a press conference on Sunday night, pausing to let the absurdity of it sink in.
And even on Thursday evening, a block away from the crime scene, mothers entered a nursery school for parents' night, pausing just briefly to look up at the circling news helicopters and wonder aloud what was going on.
"Most artists put a painting on the wall and that's fine, but I wanted to use the space between the wall," she said one morning, pausing midway through a tour of the installation.
That unity of purpose was unmistakable and slightly intimidating as they left the Headingley dressing room for the team bus on Saturday evening, pausing only to acknowledge the congratulations of a few hundred lingering supporters.
After taking Virginia home to Bowring Park in the evening, Harry would often return to the office and work throughout the night, pausing only to go to the Pier Head to buy a cup of tea and a hot pie at four in the morning.
