Word: raptness
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...well aware of the growing fear among Palestinian moderates both in and out of the P.L.O. that time is running out if the occupied territories are to be salvaged from encroaching Jewish settlements or outright Israeli annexation. West Bank Palestinians, who followed the proceedings in Algiers last week with rapt attention, sent Arafat a petition reaffirming their confidence in his leadership and in effect urging that the P.L.O. back King Hussein's entry into negotiations. Editorialized Al Quds, an Arabic-language daily published in Jerusalem: "There is now a real opportunity that should not be missed...
...called user friendly, then students might be called computer chummy. They represent key potential customers, as do their kid brothers and sisters. They may use computers now; the majority of them will probably be doing so in five years, at school or at work. So the students sit, rapt, while Jobs spins out his visions. Just a few years ago, they might have been considered shock troops of the computer revolution getting a gung-ho speech from their guerrilla leader. Not today. Now they are the occupying forces listening to a victory address by the field marshal...
...legend that engulfs them both. Barbarosa, having escaped from the grave of his enemies by playing dead, goes back to the Zabala household. Inside they are already singing songs of his latest exploit, renewing the legend with their soleman incantations to kill him Barbarosa's smile belies his rapt attention, his pleasure at playing the role of mythical phoenix of the desert: in truth he thrives on the menacing proximity of the Zabalas...
...member audience's reaction to what one observer described as Wilkie's "overly emotional approach" varied from laughter and hisses to rapt attention...
...have occurred to him that what is also being inscribed is "You aren't." Urban scrawl does not merely decorate, it also defaces: maps, buildings, trees, monuments. In this vandalized epoch, graffiti can be avoided only by the wealthy, and celebrated only by those who bombinate about the "rapt intent seething of its foliage ... the herald of some oncoming apocalypse less and less far away...