At this stage, at the start of the administration, Iraq did not feature heavily.
There were no Beach Boys up on the stage at the start, right?
"Good evening," Reed said that night, from the stage, at the start of the band's first performance.
There is some impressively dramatic staging at the start, as Shakti establishes Salome's strength and her intensity of desire.
Nor is it an accident that the play that Caden stages, at the start, is "Death of a Salesman".
A wiry little guy wanders onto the stage at the start of "4-ISH," the New York debut show by the Dutch hip-hop and extreme sports group ISH.
She shot out onto the stage at the start, an imposing magical bird with exotic fluttering wings and legs that swung into big, airy turns.
LONDON — An inky darkness suffuses the stage at the start of the thunderous new Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of "Billy Budd," and, even when the stage eventually brightens, a shuddering awareness of man's capacity for evil hovers in the mist.
As indeterminate shapes began to push up through the billowing mounds of fabric covering the stage at the start of Momix's new work, "Botanica," on Wednesday night, the child sitting next to me shivered.
After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, the Soviet Union began a major buildup of conventional forces, and in 1967 military exercises were held that indicated the expectation of a substantial conventional stage at the start of a future war.
