At the Act I run-through, as Ms. Mendoza's Arachne began descending, her spider-legged costume came undone because of a malfunction.
The apparatus dropped her into a tank of water and lifted her again to the air, before descending her at the end of the performance.
"Venus" begins as she is carried down to the pool, where people cover her in flowers and descend her into the water as a healing process.
Reporters and photographers — Mrs. McPherson's bêtes noirs — descended upon her and tore her privacy from her; and you know what her privacy means to our little lady.
Protesters have descended on her office, chanting "lock her up," and few Democrats seem willing to come forward to defend her.
She seemed more assured with the cigarette in her hand; a social manner descended on her, mildly rakish and teasing.
But nothing prepared her for the swarms that descended on her rural home after Tropical Storm Allison.
A few years later, however, after founding the Missionaries of Charity and beginning her work with the poor, darkness descended on her inner life.
A crowd of reporters, including a crew from the BBC, watched and waited, then descended on her, after which several tourists corralled her for a picture.
As soon as her family was out of harm's way, she called Ms. Benedictos, warning her to flee before the floodwaters descended on her town.
