Scheduled to open in September, this production, like so many that have preceded it, is more daring than definitive, an impossibly gorgeous tapestry of shimmering music and incisive lyrics undermined by main characters who are as evanescent as the ghostly showgirls who hover over the evening's proceedings.
The question that hovered over the evening was how well the 69-year-old singer would fare without the inspiration and grounding of the keyboard at her fingertips.
Barely 24 hours after Houston died in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, as the music world's glitterati massed at the Staples Center, it was evident that Houston's spectral presence would hover fitfully over the evening.
Not quite 24 hours after American cruise missiles hit a factory in a decrepit industrial area of this capital, clouds of white smoke and acrid smells still hovered over the site tonight.
In the warmer months, you can lie by the pool or sit in one of the Adirondack chairs on their little beach, watch the boats go by and marvel at the beautiful moon hovering over downtown Charleston at night.
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They were hovering over Damascus all the night.
I once spent the best part of 45 minutes gnawing on a badly overdone "medium rare" steak, while my partner unsuccessfully attempted to digest stone-cold ravioli, which came back to haunt him - while hovering over the toilet - later that evening.
An insomniac's fantasy of a dream lover hovering over your bed night after night; a prayer for true love that is answered by the sudden appearance of the perfect mate; a mystical moment of romantic déjà vu: those are experiences described in "Dancing on the Ceiling," "Blue Moon" and "Where or When," three of the most famous songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
An airship with night-vision capabilities hovered over the damaged area through the early morning hours.
