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...Fogg reception Friday evening, Roberts and Shaw said that they were incredibly pleased with the outcome of the conference, as did the crowd, a group of Americanists and interested intellectuals from all over, absorbed in rapt discussion and socialization, often as important a judge of a conference as the actual lectures...
...lights on stage flashed dramatically. During the chorus, with the stage lit white, Stipe even broke out his uniquely peculiar dance remembered most vividly from the “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” music video—limbs akimbo, body flailing, rapt in musical ecstasy...
Despite its lack of plot, The World Goes ’Round holds the audience in rapt attention by supplying plenty of vivid lyrical gems complemented by provocative gestures and gyrations...
What Clark wants, apparently, is to ballroom dance. During his nightly subway ride home, he spies a woman staring out the window of Miss Mitzi’s Dance Studio and, rapt by her poise, he decides to enroll secretly for beginner’s lessons...
...contrast to most of civilization, this quaint town, about a square mile large, matters only to those who know its people intimately. Here, terrorism is almost a foreign word. Though the townspeople of Mansonville sympathize with 9-11 victims and follow each development in the war on terror with rapt attention, they have other, more immediate concerns. In Mansonville, the summer’s top stories are that hardware store owner’s son, Paul, died in a bike accident and that the butcher, Hamelin, has to have surgery again. Unlike Americans, the citizens of rural Quebec...