The temporary bleachers were still under construction the afternoon of the game, Grubman said, adding, "There was a final installation of railings, of tightening risers, steps, things of that nature, and that's what did not get completed at the end".
This show is spectacle incarnate, Cecil B. DeMille meets P. T. Barnum, with monumental sets and glitter, acrobats, a magnificent Chinese dragon and a large, ragged chorus, forced down to the lip of the orchestra pit by the sets (which, with their risers, steps and pagodas, offer the masses little actual room to stand) and by the cruel minions of the princess Turandot.
Cut the riser and steps out with a circular saw, but stop just short of cutting through.
Athletes were forced to scale everything from 3-inch and 5-inch risers to steps as high as their kneecaps.
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The pope inched out of the car onto a three-step riser covered with worn carpeting.
Each dislocation core is coincident with the riser of a step, whose terrace plane contains dense CCSL points.
The Pearl's production of "The Rivals" is handsomely dressed in period costumes by Frank Champa and played on an almost bare stage with a two-step riser in the middle.
Parents shopping for suitable mates for their children gather in the city's parks most weekends to scrutinize and discuss the résumés of candidates, handwritten on bits of paper and torn sheets of cardboard taped to trees, resting on benches, and leaning against the risers of stone steps.
Yet Diller Scofidio & Renfro mess it up with cheap frills: the LED lights that scroll across the risers of the steps listing the night's performances are distracting and pointless; the two slender glass canopies that extend out over the edge of the staircase from the bulky travertine arcades of Avery Fisher Hall and the David H. Koch Theater look flimsy, as if a strong wind could blow them away.
