The man who appeared on Wednesday had aged, with gray streaking his beard, and he seemed to stride with more confidence.
Both seem to stride through the oversized, well-equipped kitchens of life taking their blows firmly on their unflinching, upraised chins.
Designed by the UK's Alsop architects, it seems to stride above the city on colourful skinny legs; its gigantic, hovering form implying that art education is important, distinct and elevated from the mundane world below.
Extending up the back of the stage is a twisting pathway which, thanks to some brave face-down abseiling and tricks of perspective, can make the human characters seem to stride into the scene from a long way off; alternatively, when Paule Constable's lighting changes, it's a cutaway view of the foxes' burrow.
At first he felt guilty about not staying behind to sign books and satisfy other people's needs, but then he smiled and walked with a casual stride, seeming to enjoy the dwindling summer light, the freedom, the prospect of good company.
Sometimes, in Leader's handling, those leaps of faith seem purposeful strides.
A guaranteed jaw-dropping hoot is the confrontation between Von Brunno and a Chicago hit man also played by House, accomplished through lightning-fast costume changes as he walks behind a screen as one character and emerges as the other without seeming to break his stride.
But this morning, Mr. Daschle seemed back in stride.
Despite his respite, Isner's chances of breaking Lopez's stride seemed to diminish steadily.
On the track, his stride seemed to tap the surface where others ran heavily.
Two countrymen sat on his heels, and his elegant stride seemed as if it might abandon him.
