The batting coach stood behind the towering chain-link fence, more than 100 feet from his pupil.
Directed and choreographed by Christopher Harrison and lasting a little more than an hour, this wordless entertainment blends subtle satire with high-octane performance in a colorful factorylike setting of steel towers, chains, pulleys, flashing lights, red warnings of danger and diagonal yellow-and-black-striped signals of caution.
That night, I checked into the Travelodge in Shenley Church End, a western gridsquare with a redbrick centre, clock-tower and chain pub.
It may have been the commercial heart of East London once, the port of call for ships from all over the empire; now it is rapidly regaining its hub status, but, with its stainless steel and glass towers, and chain pubs warning "smart dress only," it hardly feels like the East End.
Photos included on the Radome website show the condition of the site in 2001 and 2006, both show the buildings are extant in "excellent condition", but the site says the radar tower and chain-link fencing are missing.
Page's design was typical of suspension bridges of the period, and consisted of a wrought iron deck and four 97 feet cast iron towers supporting chains, which in turn supported the weight of the deck.
Back up went the tower, with a chain blocking the entrance.
Business deals were said to be discussed in the mansion belonging to his mistress, Cecilia Matos, who wore a gold replica of an oil tower on a chain around her neck; she said "Papi," as she called the president, gave her the necklace, according to Fernando Coronil, a Venezuelan anthropologist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Moving this process from a tower into a chain of cooling landscapes adds green spaces to the environment which can be used in a number of ways.
In the 1960s, this architectural style gave way to office towers and a chain of waterfront hotels and commercial skyscrapers.
0844 800 2070, nationaltrustcottages.co.uk Good for history buffs Sleeps 4 Cost from £939 a week Rising from shingle on the outskirts of Aldeburgh, this is the most northerly of a chain of towers built to defend the coast in the 19th century.
