If the Tour followed a different script from the one that might have been hoped for, that validates cycling's lasting truth: this is a sport of the open road and there is only a certain extent to which it can be stage-managed and "made for television".
The new sense of social engagement evident in Arab countries from Egypt to the Persian Gulf seems to reach far beyond the anti-Israeli and anti-American street demonstrations that have become near-daily occurrences and which can be stage-managed, either by governments or political movements.
Thus love can be staged and constructed.
Do we really think the 2022 World Cup can be staged in Qatar?
With another woman in the ranks, the material can be staged as it was imagined.
Anything can be staged, chopped, glossed and transmitted in under a minute.
Mr. Duffas has done Moliere and Corneille a service by proving that "Psyche" can be staged today.
It was in Paris that he published a long philosophical drama, "The Candlemaker," which Rowland implausibly suggests can be staged successfully, despite its five-hour running time.
A trial can be staged with didactic purposes without degenerating into a political farce, he says, so long as the judge-director makes good use of legal procedure.
Two local women, widowed by the wondrous train-wreck, flee Fingerbone before any commemoration can be staged: "They said they could no longer live by the lake.
To that end Mr. Thurman said every client's preferences, from room temperature to beverage, are recorded so that a meeting room can be staged ahead of time.
