Roxie's fantasies trigger swift transitions from stage to prison and courtroom and back.
Even as the boos resounded for Mr West, Ms Swift took the stage, and sang "Innocent", a song of pity for the rapper, who is 13 years her senior.
Although Midler became known for the swift, self-mocking stage patter of her creation the Divine Miss M — she's looser and more cynical than Dolly Parton — she sometimes lets the island girl come out, and her ukulele playing while she sings a Hawaiian song is soft, slow, and tender.
Although there were nearly 20 performances during the three-hour spectacle, only four acts got to use the entire stage: Swift's ambitious opening, Pitbull's medley, Fergie's comeback and Azalea and Lopez's much-hyped closer.
When Beyoncé later won the award for Best Video of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", she called Swift up on stage so that she could finish her acceptance speech.
The pair are rehearsing what must be one of the swiftest transfers in stage history.
Not just another "Macbeth," but Gregory Doran's swift and intermissionless staging for the Royal Shakespeare Company in which Antony Sher in the title role was acclaimed as "unparalleled" and Harriet Walker as Lady Macbeth, another critic wrote, "moves with the murderously incisive swiftness of a slasher's knife".
However, near the end of the workflow, system load drops and network traffic increases dramatically, especially on site 0 which is the main site from which Swift operates and stages all file transfers to and from the other sites.
In summary, these observations point towards a swift but sustained late stage autophagy blockade.
Already it was receding, swifter and swifter, in the last stage of its headlong journey downward into the sun.
It is a tension-filled scene, and the artist successfully sets the stage for swift impending change.
