Word: raptness
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...almost-autobiographer. Sitting onZuckerman's deck, burning a citronella candle,they talk, for six nights, about Ira. In the firstthird of the book, the plot of Ira's life has beensketched, and what follows is Murray and Zuckermanunpacking. Murray utters his six-night fractalintensification of detail, and Zuckerman listens,rapt to elderly Murray's deposition on his deathbrother. as a teenager, Zuckerman had taken Ira onas a mentor, and Roth is at his most interestingwhen he illustrates the knee-jerk memories evokedin Zuckerman by Murray's revelations...
Accosted by jazz lovers, advocates and supporters, a mellow Ravi modestly signed autographs. Kind conversations about his sister, Mickey, and his love of jazz floated to his listeners. Many contented fans calmly dispersed before the second set, leaving only the hard-core fans rapt past midnight. Musical glitter from the trumpet coated the few full chairs in a shade of mystery, beginning with "Mixed Media," a song composed by Ravi...
...sixteen year-old, captain of the football team may represent pure power. That doesn't mean she can't giggle coyly and use womanly wiles to wrap him around her little finger. Is Monica guilty of such giggles? Maybe, though perhaps in this case giggles have translated into rapt interest into how the country is run. Regardless, power plays a role, and unequal allotments of traditional power don't always imply wrongdoings...
...Monday night before a rapt national audience, Bill Clinton's first-ever public admission of having lied began with--a new lie. "My answers were legally accurate..." he said of his Paula Jones testimony...
...gulps, awkward in his ponderous regalia, But his eye stays rapt, Elephantine, Arctic-- A god, on earth for the first time, With the clock of love and death in his body...