Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexis Smith is the living, dancing refutation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's axiom that there are no second acts in American lives. At 49 she is in the best second act of her life. Her blue-green eyes catch the light and the audience's rapt attention; her body seems beyond the aspiration of girls half her age. She is simultaneously a source of awe, envy and consolation. Middle-aged men see her as carnality enshrined: the girl who stayed as young in life as in memory. Their wives think, if she can do it, I can do it. Just...
...word "tears" recurs frequently in Richard 11. Yet it is no easy task for an actor to evoke tears for a character who is so full of self-pity. It is proof of Chamberlain's high emotive gift that members of an audience, so rapt that they never coughed, had cause, more than once, to wipe their eyes...
...Dennis' interest is not unusual in heavily Republican San Clemente, which last year sent a John Bircher to Congress. Bob Kutcher, owner of the hardware store visited by Nixon, is equally rapt. "He was dressed casually, a dark suit and tie; he looked very nice," Kutcher recalls. "They had just put the pool in, and I guess he thought he needed some beach balls, so he bought four dollars' worth." A frame containing a picture of Kutcher talking to the President, as well as the four dollars, now hangs in the store. "And he sent us his official...
Guided Tour. For those who wanted to see just how the U.S. "exploits and oppresses its own people," American militants ran a bus tour of Harlem. The delegates rode in rapt silence as their guide pointed out drug addicts and berated the "white fascist pig establishment." One puzzled youth wanted to know where all the late-model automobiles came from. He was told that they belonged exclusively to black exploiters of blacks-pimps, pushers and similar parasites...
...filth. That attitude is far too simple; when three out of the top four non-fiction bestsellers across the nation are titled Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), The Sensuous Woman and Human Sexual Inadequacy, the stage is bound to reflect such rapt, obvious and pervasive interest...