Word: fidget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nicole's story: 250 wedding guests assemble at the church. The bride arrives in her bridal radiance. The appointed hour. No groom. Hmmm. Buzz, buzz. Time passes. Still no groom. Fidget and buzz. Guests swivel in their pews to scan the back of the church, in mounting alarm. At last, the best man--looking grim, dressed in street clothes, not formal wedding regalia--appears and reports that, Sorry, the groom has decided he cannot go through with it. Shock, tears, consternation--The Philadelphia Story upside down, or turned sideways, anyhow...
...surrounding areas and slowly build up the slight recognition that could be mislabeled as a following. Just before the beginning of Geniuses of Crack, Mark is approached by an A&R man from a new, alternative record company that wants to sign Bottlecap. The novel opens as they fidget in their seats on a transcontinental flight, destination L.A. and possible music stardom...
Anna, meanwhile, was less in-your-face; she was committed and determined, but didn't fidget nearly as much. I wouldn't call them opposites, but I surely wouldn't call them carbon copies...
...Shaath's well-appointed home--an incongruous sight in the midst of Gaza's rubble--one TV is tuned to CNN, another to Israeli television. Various radios blare with election news. The guests fidget and curse Peres' rival, Benjamin Netanyahu. "It's amazing," Shaath says, "for decades, each Israeli Prime Minister was as bad for us as every other. But this time our whole future is on the line. This is our election too, so of course we're all anxious--and believe me, no one is more anxious than Arafat. Given where we are with the peace process...
...scene, Atkins appears disguised as a flower-girl, wearing a large, tire-shaped plant holder around his waist and singing about the many varieties of flowers he sells. And near the opera's end, when after the three-and-one-half hour performance audience members have begun to fidget in their seats, Elviro proclaims, "I am really exhausted...