Twenty-nine older, physically active subjects (65 79 years) and 28 younger individuals (23 40 years) were instructed to cross a staged road, when a traffic light changed from red to green, leading with a freely chosen or predetermined leg.
In some schools, when a name is called the student stands, rather than crossing a stage.
His coach, his wife, his two children and 30 of his closest friends saw the PGA Tour commissioner, Tim Finchem, hand him his card as he crossed a stage like a graduate receiving a diploma.
As hundreds of seniors from his alma mater, Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, crossed a stage at Hofstra University to collect diplomas on Tuesday morning, Mr. Walcott stood up, found a roll of brown tape and knelt to secure a wire that had come loose in their path.
"Today the system of child and family protection in Moldova is crossing a stage that probably will not repeat - a stage full of opportunities, which also requires a tremendous responsibility," said the Minister.
Basma Kodmani, a spokeswoman of the newly formed opposition group, the Syrian National Council, said President Bashar al-Assad's government had "crossed a new stage in the strategy of repression.
He needed not just any footsteps, but ones that sounded like they were made by a low high heel of roughly the sort that women would wear in the mid-1970s crossing a wooden stage.
With conventions these days largely reduced to a tightly-scripted cross between a stage play and an infomercial, it's not as though there wasn't plenty of opportunity to get away from the usual insular back-and-forth.
For an hour, the dancers cross the stage on a grid, mostly in unison, in a repetition-with-variation pattern that mimics the bargello weave of the Philip Glass score.
