Word: rapt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-member audience present at the start on Saturday, however, was rapt. Greer I. Gilman, who works at the Widener Library Preservation Department, was among those witnessing the start of the reading. Greer, who brought along her own dog-eared copy of the "obscure and very attractive book," said she appreciated Nash's "passion and his fanatic heart...
Nancy Reagan watchers used to refer to it as "the gaze." It was that look of rapt attention she fixed on people, a look that implied the recipient was the most important person in the world. Classmates at Smith College may have been the first to notice it; she developed it further in Hollywood while wooing Ronald Reagan. But the gaze became most famous during Nancy Reagan's days in the White House: the frozen, doe-eyed stare of adoration that the First Lady would fix on the President whenever she watched him speak...
...billion. If Ryan was in an awkward position, so were some of his Senate inquisitors, who are themselves under a cloud in the S&L mess. They are accused of favoritism toward thrift owner Charles Keating Jr., who made sizable contributions to their campaigns -- and who was a rapt spectator at the Senate hearings...