Onofre told the band the length of the performance was to be determined by how long the oxygen inside lasted.
The sun radiates down on me and my dog Rosie, who is lying carefully so as to not to crush the tubing that connects me to an electronic concentrator, providing oxygen 24 hours a day, via a nasal canula, should I need it.
It's a major challenge given obstacles surrounding oxygen and nutrient supply to the tissue.
I grew up in the UK and didn't know what Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams' voice sounded like until 1994 because Margaret Thatcher decided that a voice ban, imposed in 1988, would "deny terrorists the oxygen of publicity".
This article was amended on 11 March 2011 to clarify the distinction between the hydrogen-peroxide bearing product that goes under the umbrella name of liquid oxygen, and the gas of the same name.
In the aftermath of the Guardian's story on the Real IRA today and the dissident group's bellicose warning to bankers and the banking system, the "oxygen of publicity" argument was resurrected once more.
The smokestacks of factories billow pollution into the ethereal, magnificently rendered atmosphere – Seurat seems to paint every molecule of oxygen and smoke – but here on the riverside is a moment of timeless summer peace.
John Kendrew's work to solve the structure of myoglobin, a handy oxygen store found in muscle cells, was in fact a more impressive scientific feat that figuring out DNA (no mean achievement in itself).
Crewman John Webster and I check the vehicle; it must be clean and equipped with wheelchairs, stretchers, gloves, dressings and oxygen.
"There I was inside a metal box of about 1.6 metres squared with the band and our gear – and 40 minutes of oxygen".
The embers of revolt have been smouldering beneath the foundations for several years now and the independence campaign gave them the oxygen to become a full conflagration.
