Word: raptness
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...young and beautiful housewife stands at a table on which are scattered her more precious worldly goods--strings of pearls (including a rare set of "black" pearls, which are actually gunmetal gray), gold and silver coins, and boxes that presumably contain more small treasures. She gazes with rapt attention at a jeweler's balance, which has nothing in either scale; she is checking that the empty balance hangs level...
...extremities, packing Broadway and West End theaters and then filling everyone in on the local stories of an Irish town. The result often feels more forced than intimate. But anyone who's heard the chilling central monologue of The Weir and experienced an entire theater falling into rapt silence knows that there's a core power to expert storytelling that can't be lost on any scale.This power is undoubtedly strongest, however, on the smallest scale. And therein lies the success of the Sugan Theatre Company's production of This Lime Tree Bower, one of McPherson's earliest plays, currently...
What sent chills down the spines of 20,000 fans in that arena was when Reed tested out his injured leg prior to tipoff. His warm-up routine that night is the only one I can remember that received actual play-by-play, as well as the rapt attention of the entire opposing team...
...Puffy" and "J-Lo," SEAN COMBS and JENNIFER LOPEZ to the nickname impaired, are over. Then again, Puffy and J-Lo are not over. It is an amorous seesaw that holds the nation rapt in tepid curiosity. The New York Daily News reported last week that Lopez quietly split from Combs several months ago and has been seeing a dancer named Chris--who lacks not only a nickname but a surname--whom she met while making her Love Don't Cost a Thing video. The callipygian queen instantly denied the story, her spokesperson intoning that Lopez and Combs "are absolutely...
...restaurant where the waitresses sing as they deliver the food. Xuan ducked work in order to spend time with his soon-to-be wife--his first holiday since 1996. Nhung was onstage in the Long Phung Culture Center, singing the songs of Trinh Cong Son to a rapt audience. And Huy was back in the Hot Club, coaxing another new act, looking for that smile...