Neither problem materialized on Tuesday night.
A hint of Mr. Denault's troubles materialized on Wednesday, when John C. Liu, the city comptroller, released a letter from Science Applications International stating that Mr. Denault had been fired for misrepresenting the number of hours he had worked.
The heaving white mass materialized on Friday afternoon in an industrial section of Santa Clara, 45 miles from San Francisco.
But now attention turns to what sort of street protest might materialize on Friday, ahead of the weekend of voting.
A statue of Ms. Mughrabi to be erected in the square did not materialize on Thursday due to the cancellation of the official ceremony.
Mr. Dickman warned that the party was going to end soon, and that the cold front would, in fact, materialize on Tuesday.
A planned demonstration in which Iranian workers were to join reformists in an antigovernment protest failed to materialize on Saturday, apparently the result of intimidation and a large police presence.
Should the cease-fire fail to materialize on Thursday, it will raise uncomfortable questions about what options are left for the international community to stop a 13-month-old conflict that has claimed at least 9,000 lives, by the United Nations' count.
The framework of the forthcoming battle over Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick began to materialize on Sunday, as a range of Republican officials sent out trial-balloon criticisms of a pick that is likely weeks away from being announced.
The transition — which materialized on the same day that Greece named its own new technocratic government under Lucas Papademos, an economist and former head of the Bank of Greece — had been held up by infighting among members of Italy's entrenched political class, who were anxious to preserve their power, privileges and political bases.
