Although he originally intended WaterFire as a one-time happening on First Night 1995, after the following performance, in 1996, Joan Slafsky, a prominent arts supporter who was among those encouraging him to produce it regularly, spearheaded the fund-raising that established WaterFire as integral to Providence's community and cultural life.
Asked how the season would be remembered, Rodriguez said hopefully "as a blip on the screen, a one-time happening".
It's not just one time, it happens on fly over.
One time that happened, I was in my 20s and living on my own in Greenwich Village.
Take, for example, an object in motion that tries to rest, just for a moment, to keep from crying in front of the kids, like that one time, and happens to audibly lock the bathroom door.
At one time, he happened actually to be — there are no two ways about it — a bona-fide Special Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York, and on both of two entirely tangible motorcars he owned at the time he had placed tags of his own design that said in plain English that he was.
At one time, news happened at a pace that allowed it to be digested relatively slowly, in batches resembling what we were used to from the one or two-times a day print newspaper schedules.
One time it happened in front of our daughter.
One time it happened in a meeting at work with several others and I had to look down and grip the arms of the chair I was in.
"Once they become at all established anywhere, that's the end, because to robots time happens one million times faster – that's a fairly exact figure – than it does to us.
One time, the noisemakers happened to be an older vacationing couple sitting across from each other at one of the work tables favored by businessmen.
