I felt as though I'd read Alice Greenway's White Ghost Girls (Atlantic £10.99, pp176) countless times before: watchful heroine comes tragically of age against an exotic, troubled backdrop.
Carlos Uribe, an artist, who runs the center, showed off the beehive of below-ground practice rooms, the dance studio and theater opening onto the outdoors, the library and courtyard, flanked by low ramps, providing a desperately needed safe and attractive public space, where small children romped before watchful teachers among burbling fountains that recalled the Alhambra.
If your program has been prone to freezing before, keep a watchful eye on it and save often.
And so we don masks of conformity before the watchful eyes of the state, hoping to achieve the cherished dream of crossing national boundaries.
OKINAWA CITY, Japan — Takeru Iwamura, the Hiroshima Carp's No. 1 draft pick fresh out of high school, threw a spring training bullpen session before the watchful eyes of his team's guest pitching coach.
The precipitous weight loss suffered by Colby, Elisabeth, Keith and Tina, the final four contestants on the latest "Survivor," played itself out before the watchful gaze of a weekly audience of more than 20 million viewers.
"We've been waiting 16 years for an answer," said Mark Kauffman, an Amish farmer whose four profoundly handicapped children thrashed spasmodically in wheelchairs and a crib before the watchful gaze of the visiting physician.
But they weathered the pace and hostility of Morkel and Steyn prior to tea before mixing watchful defence with some eye-catching strokes in the evening sunshine.
Less may be more but how do you get there from here, especially if you are balancing adult kids who can't find work and parents who seem to be disintegrating right before your watchful eyes?
I am careful, but I live as before: my eyes open and watchful.
('Whatever you do, Brer Fox, don't throw me into that briar patch,' said Brer Rabbit - just as Gibbs might have announced before his innings, 'Whatever you do Brers Flintoff, Harmison et al, don't bowl short outside my off stump.') But it wasn't all rubbish, and he had to endure a watchful wait before even getting off the mark.
