Word: raptness
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...considerable talent and style. Jenny Davidson really rings the audience's bell, snorting her way through the production as the hobbling, grunting Luxurioso. In her monologue climbing the stairs at the end of scene 13, she transcends mere stereotype to take command of the whole theatre: the audience is rapt...
...birthday, Diana made a high-profile trip to Paris that turned into a triumph. Looking relaxed and radiant, she spent nearly two hours with the Mitterrands, much of it with the President himself. She appears confident discussing humanitarian and social issues in such powerful surroundings and invariably wins the rapt attention of Presidents and ministers with a distinctly honest way of speaking and asking questions -- a far cry from her earlier repertoire of girlish smiles and playing dumb...
...show is held together by Alexandre Schnieders' portrayal of Doctor Stockmann. His acting, although often simplistic, is so ebullient and frenetic that the audience is held rapt. The Doctor, who can appear a distant and unsympathetic character on reading Ibsen's text, becomes more appealing through Schneider's warm performance...
...launch a high-tech assault intended to inform voters of exactly what that plan is. Drop by your local Democratic Party headquarters, and you too can access the Bill Clinton Interactive Kiosk, a multimedia presentation complete with moving pictures in which voters can view the candidate speaking to a rapt audience on 12 topics such as defense, the economy and welfare reform. Voters can even take home a printout of the Clinton positions. The program is far from boring, but music fans will be disappointed to learn that it does not include any saxophone breaks played by the candidate...
...Bush gently prodded the conservative delegates to broaden their party's sometimes narrow definition of family, while warm-up act Marilyn Quayle championed a zero-tolerance approach to "family values." But it was Mary Fisher, the HIV-positive daughter of a top G.O.P. fund raiser, who held the Astrodome rapt with her insistence that AIDS victims "have not earned cruelty and do not deserve meanness." Coming after several days of antigay rhetoric, Fisher gave what many believed was the bravest speech of the week...