Word: raptness
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...summers past that we fell for the Macarena as party starter, Regis Philbin as fashion icon and Howard Dean as Democratic front runner. If you need further proof that the ozone layer is thinning, look to the summer TV season of 2005, in which ABC got 15 million rapt Americans to watch Dancing with the Stars, the most proudly bizarre song-and-dance show since Pink Lady and Jeff...
...help of Eleganza. Standing up in the back of the Bright Hockey Center throughout the show’s first two acts—including the part with the petals and a male model shaking his decorated thong—Kidd tapped her foot to the music, eyes rapt on the stage...
...potential significance of Hiroshima was never lost on Americans. Even bathed in the kissing and weeping at the end of the war, people realized that the remarkable Bomb that felled an empire and brought the world to rapt attention was not going to be a gift without a price. In the Aug. 20, 1945, issue of TIME, James Agee looked ahead: "With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split--and far from controlled." Agee was anticipating an opposition between people...
...agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is not Michael Corleone, Anakin Skywalker, or even Shrek. The original Ms. Congeniality left no audience member rapt in anticipation of her continued life saga. While Ms. Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous is among the most unnecessary sequels in film history (perhaps since Jeepers Creepers 2), it actually succeeds as a cute, fun and campy second chapter following the first’s formula...
...we’re all jotting notes and nodding politely as the next agent in training extols the virtues of a job that lets you hang with Snoop at a release party one night and scout LA clubs for the next big music act. We’re rapt with attention. The point is not that we’re trying to hustle a few Hollywood agents for upcoming jobs. No, the point is they’re hustling...