It's all carefully stage-managed of course, whisking you between each near-death experience with razor-sharp precision, but is thrilling nonetheless.

What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardensphoto-call, carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead.

The carefully stage-managed ones last summer in St. Paul?

In a carefully stage-managed event, the Emperor and Empress spent several minutes talking with the elderly survivors of the caves.

By doing so, the Justice Secretary overshadowed a well-received announcement by his Cabinet colleague and undermined the conference's carefully stage-managed appearance of unity.

"The carefully stage-managed press briefings by officials were either naive or designed to mislead."

But these details are, of course, as carefully stage-managed as anything in conventional materialist hip-hop.

And of course neither was Apple which has always been sniffy about trade fairs, preferring to be the centre of attention at its own carefully stage-managed events.

Flying visits cannot convey the many facets of school life - nor delivering the occasional, carefully stage-managed class.

We've barely managed to keep up this pretense by letting me be seen only under carefully stage-managed conditions-and we've just missed being caught out as it is.