At any moment, the brick walls of the park might dissolve and we would behold a scene out of Genet.
My hope and vision with Title and Deed was that, yes, writer and director would disappear, and we would behold this man on a stage, just the right mix of nerves and ease, of internality and outwardness, and that he would really just seem like a person, familiar enough to understand but particular enough to embody the mystery of an actual human being.
We'd behold a human potpourri of nose-tickling possibility.
And it becomes perfectly clear once we understand the importance Zosimus attributes to the Secular Games, and the schematic incongruity he would behold when a Christian emperor was presiding over them.
You would behold great castles, paradisical gardens and wilderness landscapes where stories of creation, love, sex, birth, initiation, war, death and resurrection are set.
Anyone who has marveled at the patient perseverance of medieval city dwellers — who watched their cathedrals grow by fits and starts over the decades, knowing they would never behold completion with their own eyes — will appreciate this tableau on Amsterdam Avenue.
Five years ago they said yes, it could happen, and yesterday, lo and behold, there was the sight we never thought we would see.
Reid was mercurial when he came on and when it got to extra-time, expectations rose and, lo and behold, we'd done it again".
Heard today, its lyrics — "The weaker sex, the speaker sex we mortal males behold/ But though we joke we wouldn't trade you for a ton of gold" — are cringingly funny.
We wouldn't have much to go off of with just the model number — fortunately for us, they went ahead and included the product name; behold, it's the Behold 2. It's only been around 8 months since the original Behold hit the shelves, so we'd imagine that the followup is still a few months away.
Who knew how long it would be before we again beheld the splendor of "Cold Gettin' Dumb"?
