Word: unbidden
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...smiles. His mouth, his eyes ... even his curly hair seems happy. You guess that, offstage, in a living room or a mall or asleep, his face would radiate a purring contentment. I haven?t met the man, but I know a few people who know him, and they say, unbidden, that he is The Nicest Guy in the World. And when my in-house theater maven, Mary Corliss, chatted with him a while back, she said he was as gracious in person as he is imposing on stage. So his performance at the Regency isn?t method acting, apparently...
...woke up tired and forlorn and grew more so as the day progressed, seeing the grief in each other’s faces and in Kerry’s face when he finally conceded. In too many conversations, I could feel cracks forming, could feel candor welling forth, unbidden and unwanted. My roommate cried in dining hall, painful tears that she wiped away, hard, with her fingertips, and I could do nothing but rub her back and look grave...
...gently lulled into a sense of suburban security by his good-humored apercus, until--bam!--the scariness of life surges into view like water from a ruptured main: a miserable ex-girlfriend pops a fistful of OxyContin, or someone chokes on a turkey bone, or a memory surfaces unbidden of a cop bringing Daisy home in the middle of the night because she has been prowling the elementary school playground naked but for a pair of white Keds...
...remember: whenever utter quiet intervened, in those tiny moments where, apparently unbidden, every conversation stills, that she used to playfully whisper, “Ezeh sheket?...
...toys. Put the pieces together one way, and you end up with a normal child. Put them together another way, and you end up with a child with autism. And as one watches Tommy's fingers rhythmically turning a train into a robot, a robot into a train, an unbidden thought occurs. Could it be that some dexterous sleight of hand could coax even profoundly autistic brains back on track? Could it be that some kid who's mesmerized by the process of transformation will mature into a scientist who figures out the trick? --With reporting by Amy Bonesteel/Atlanta