Word: raptness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Towne’s screenplay matches perfectly with the subtle horror touches of Roman Polanski’s direction (until then best known for “Rosemary’s Baby”) to hold the viewers rapt through a strange plot involving water, money, murder, and incest...
...dubbed the “Spirit of America” landed and, flanked by numerous officials in suits and somber State Troopers flaunting crisp, fresh-pressed uniforms, its door unfurled. Was the President of Zambia paying Mitt Romney a visit? Was Pope Benedict in the plane? I waited in rapt anticipation for the individual deemed worthy of such a triumphal greeting to emerge. Imagine my surprise when suddenly at the door appeared a miserable and rather mousy-looking man, shackled at the wrists and ankles and with his head slung. I turned up the volume on the television...
Last Tuesday, national leaders gathered in Lithonia, Ga. to observe and partake in the funeral of the famed civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Replete with hefty doses of pomp and spectacle, the nation watched with rapt attention as political and civil rights leaders paid their final respects to one of the great women of the 20th century...
...much more—offered up, with little chance that any of it will be accomplished.The reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been a bevy of nonsensical endorsements. Ethnic groups, who rely on the UC to fund Cinco de Mayo festivities and baba ghanoush feeds, seem to be particularly rapt with this game, but the implications of an ethnic endorsement are transparently ludicrous. Can campus Arabs hope to gain more from John S. Haddock ’07, the endorsed candidate of the Society of Arab Students, than the others? Why is John F. Voith...
Upon arriving in London on Thursday July 7th, just hours after the explosion of four bombs on the city’s subway trains and commuter buses, I am not sure whether my attention is held rapt more by the anomalous signs of recent chaos or by the signs of normality that still characterize the city...