11.   For us, the curtain rose in late afternoon, about an hour into our vigil.

12.   He then let the curtain rise on the entire company.

13.   He walks off the basketball stage and vanishes until the curtain rises on his next performance.

14.   In each work, the curtain rises on an exotic clime, where magic, black and white, runs rampant.

15.   Instead, the curtain rose on a large basket of yellow flowers and then descended slowly.

16.   It does, and the curtain rises to show all the saints in heaven.

17.   Later those curtains rose into the air, making the stage seem a vast expanse, glowing with lighting designed by Robert Wierzel.

18.   Ms. Marin molds her dancers like clay, and they are indeed claylike figures, covered with white powder, when the curtain rises.

19.   Nothing beats the opening number, as a mass of tap-dancing feet clatters in unison, and the curtain rises only a few inches above the ankle .

20.   Suspend the season from the moment the curtain rises on the Olympics until the last act in hockey is written.