In Christopher Oram's rough-hewn arena, there is nothing for the eye to settle on except the actors and their actions.
The hurly-burly of family betrayal was played out on Christopher Oram's gorgeous rough-hewn arena, a wooden box of planks painted in turbulent swirls of white and grey.
Since the 1960s, when Andy Warhol acted as impressario to the Velvet Underground, and when John Lennon brought Yoko Ono into the heart of the world's biggest band, artists have attempted to hijack the mainstream and enter the rough-and-tumble arena of the charts.
Like Duvall's character in the Francis Ford Coppola film, Levy has survived and thrived in a rough-and-tumble arena.
John Paul Jones's bass lines got a little lost in the hall's acoustics — like all such places, the 22,000-seat O2 arena is rough on low frequencies — but he was thoroughly in the pocket with Jason Bonham; when he sat down to play keyboards on "Kashmir" and "No Quarter" and a few others, he simultaneously operated bass pedals with his feet, keeping to that same far-behind-the-beat groove.
The structure has the rough dimensions of a basketball arena, and its rust-daubed walls are battleship gray.
For one thing, the council members had remained silent as the arena proposal endured rough handling from the State Legislature over the last two years.
"He's still part of the team, he's my brother, so I'm going to stick to him through rough times," Stevenson said of Arenas.
— Kaden Bustamante tottered out of the rodeo arena after the brief, rough ride he had endured on a careening mount landed him face down in the dirt.
Toshiba's second venture into the tablet arena is off to a rough start, as reports have come in saying that the Toshiba slate will be delayed in the UK.
