A recent show horrified and enthralled Dubliners in equal measure, when its centrepiece turned out to be cheeses cultivated from bacteria found on parts of the human body.
The early news that the mannequins would have to be small because of the small stage gave the mistaken impression that everything would be in miniature; the centrepiece turns out to be a soaring beacon of stylised drapery some 15ft high.
American politicians may find this unpalatable.Doubt also surrounds a centrepiece of the bail-out plan announced by Tim Geithner, the treasury secretary, on February 10th: a public-private partnership to buy distressed mortgages and other bad assets.
Last night, Britain's bank bosses had met with Darling to discuss a possible £50bn injection of equity, which is likely to form the centrepiece of the bail-out plan.
* EU Referendum Bill The centrepiece of the Government's programme, this sets out plans to hold a decisive in-out vote on British membership of the EU by the end of 2017.
Samira Wiley, who plays fan favourite Poussey Washington, is in many ways the centrepiece of the tense story arc that plays out among the prisoners and the guards.
A respected British collector complains that promoting outsider art as the centrepiece of the Biennale is a "curatorial cop-out", because it ignores more important artistic talents that would come to be seen as the defining voices of their generation.
The unveiling of the collection forms the centrepiece of this enjoyable tale, folding out elegantly from its rose-hued pages.
The waterfall, silent and waterless when they first arrived in Kilfane, had once formed the centrepiece of a then fashionably melancholy woodland walk, laid out in the 1790s by Sir Richard Power, who owned Kilfane.
The character was credited by former head of BBC Drama Serials, Mal Young, as "anchoring the success of the anniversary storyline", and was described on the news programme BBC Breakfast as the "centrepiece" of the show, with the on-screen drama playing out over the course of the year and culminating in Chrissie's departure in December.
