But those who wanted to bid their hockey hero a more personal goodbye made their way yesterday through the swiftly moving lines inside the building.
The song in question, of course, is the overpraised "Glory," which, aside from some moving lines about Jay-Z's father, is the kind of schmalz we would barbecue anyone else for releasing.
Users of the league's Xbox One app, which provides an interactive way of browsing video clips, fantasy-football statistics, and other metrics, will be able to explore a feature called Next Gen Replay, which allows them to track each player's speed and trajectory, combining moving lines on a virtual field with live footage from the real one.
The central emotional drama of the novel is, in fact, the ongoing war of attrition between the son and the mother, resolved — in the only way possible for these two implacable characters — in the final, very moving lines of the book.
If you look across the hill tops that meet the Northern sky, Long moving lines of rising dust your vision may descry; And now the wind, an instant, tears the cloudy vail aside, And floats aloft our spangled flag, in glory and in pride, And bayonets in the sunlight gleam, and bands brave music pour: We are coming Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!
Invented by a geometer known as Hippias of Elis (flourished 5th century bce), the quadratrix is a curve traced by the point of intersection between two moving lines, one rotating uniformly through a right angle, the other gliding uniformly parallel to itself.
