In the corner of a laboratory at Michigan State University, one of the longest-running experiments in evolution is quietly unfolding.

Instead "Brick Lane" unfolds more quietly and prettily, punctuated by inevitable bitter twists.

On Monday, as the parade pounded along with drumbeats and confetti, the Mass unfolded quietly inside.

But with their deaths a strange subplot in the Iraq war was born - a legal case still quietly unfolding today, as the U.S. Army pursues a murder trial.

And as the warm balmy night quietly unfolded, Marcus's displeasure deepened, for his restraint, once pliant, began to crack.

He gazed up at the cloud, quietly unfolding across the star fields.

Instead, he let the gestures quietly unfold, thereby turning what is often a dance of introspection into a dance of aspiration.

The ritzy patrons at the tables nearby are unaware of the tawdry drama quietly unfolding at this table.

Ms. Oppens's performances here and in the Rachmaninoff studies, several of which she quietly unfolded as poetic miniatures, were much less problematic.

Meanwhile the real story behind the boycott was quietly unfolding around the corner.