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...unveiling of your firm's grandest project yet, the one that will cement--or ruin--your international reputation. And you hope and pray no one notices your work. For acoustics designers like Yasuhisa Toyota, success arrives when an audience is rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise...
Richardson’s rapt attention to the lecture was interrupted around 10:20 a.m. when he committed his first lecture hall faux pas—leaving one’s cell phone on in class. He swiftly silenced his phone when it began blaring a trebly version of the theme from The Godfather...
NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond was watched with rapt attention when he spoke to a packed audience over dinner...
...early '70s, Katharine Hepburn and two friends entered a loge box in the London theater where Harold Pinter's Old Times was playing. Hepburn soon went prone on the floor of the box to get a closer view of the play--her chin in her cupped hands, her eyes rapt as a schoolgirl's on Christmas morning. That day the laser beam of Hepburn's gaze outshone the spotlights and, nearly, the actors onstage. Did people notice her? Oh, yes: Hepburn was the show, and she knew it. Not for nothing was her autobiography titled...
...There’s no doubt there’s a temptation,” he says. “You see these rapt younger faces looking up, and you can get quite a kick out of that, and you can get deluded into thinking somehow you’re really doing something significant when all you’re doing is stroking your...