William Shakespeare, whose characters ignore signs and portents at their peril, would surely have appreciated the mystical convergences involved in performing his "Richard III" in a parking lot.
These are dire portents for Leicester, whose two most recent Heineken quarter-finals were away, and they lost them both: to Toulon last season and Leinster in 2011.
On the evidence of last season, the portents are ominous for Ince, whose future is more likely to rest on the fixtures that follow Liverpool - Wigan, Stoke and Sunderland.
Perhaps even more of a portent here was Giorgio Moroder's Eurodisco, whose clockwork-precise sequencers and icily erotic electronics forged the connection between synthesizers and the dancefloor, as opposed to the early association of Tangerine Dream/Klaus Schulze-type music with getting stoned and supine on your sofa.
When Harold Wilson made his dramatic first speech as Labour leader to his party's 1963 annual conference, offering a new vision of socialism and a Britain "forged in the white heat" of a scientific and technological revolution, his words were hailed as a portent of an exciting future for the country, whose voters rewarded him with his first election victory the following year.
Like Joseph McBride, whose magisterial "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" was first published in 1997, Haskell finds portents of Spielberg's visual imagination — his obsessions, his tropes — embedded in his early life, particularly in the family romance of mother, father, and child.
His establishment at the great Buddho-Daoist centre, Lushan (in Jiangxi province), carried out ceremonies and provided auspicious portents in favour of the Liu-Song dynasty (420 479), in whose rulers Daoists complacently agreed to recognize the fulfillment of the old messianic prophesies and the legitimate continuation of the Han dynasty.
Before this A&E affiliation, Mr. Kurtis, whose serious, buttoned-up mien and resonant voice lend a Rod Sterling-like portent to the subjects he covers, spent nearly two decades in television news, beginning in his native Kansas and continuing in Chicago, where he joined the local CBS affiliate.
The portents do not look good for Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, whose trial on highly dubious sodomy charges draws to a close this week.
Here, his solo pieces mingle with tracks recorded with electronic composer James Hunter, aka The Dark Poets, whose samplescapes, synth beds and vocal samples about things like military mind-control techniques recall the dark portents of Cabaret Voltaire.
When gophers start to burrow around the widower Frank Delabano's prized rosebushes, he buys a rare plant whose roots are guaranteed to drive them away, and his suburban landscape is suddenly filled with portent.
