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The tone of the dance was by turns rapt, jubilant, and possessed.

Redcar: 2.45 Rapt, 4.15 Nichol Fifty, 4.45 Flying Trapeze.

Down: 1 Sideline; 2 Ill; 3 Salsa; 4 dessert; 5 Norm; 6 rapt; 7 Keep; 11 Note; 12 Semi; 13 Estimate; 15 Earshot; 18 Moans; 19 rice; 20 Stet; 21 dumb; 24 Can.

Author Cloise Orand deftly draws from apocalyptic biblical prophecy and an original take on the concept of "antichrist" to write a dramatic page-turner of a story that will engage the readers rapt attention from beginning to end.

To enter is to be transformed from visitor into rapt beholder, all agog in stunned silence and quasi-agoraphobic awe.

Last week he listened with what appeared to be rapt attention to a rather cheesy piano player in a Chinese restaurant.

Then there are some of her other Robbins roles: a wistful, Juliet-style heroine in The Guests; the zany leader of the riot in The Pied Piper or that most rapt of nymphs in Afternoon of a Faun.

ThE winner of last week's pounds 500 Xword was helen MacDonald, from Lutterworth, Leicestershire YESTERDaY'S SOLuTIOnS: BO I L FLAG HEW APSE R I LE UAE RAPT EP I LOGUE BLYTHE ADD EASES D I RK REFRA I N SOYA URE RADAR WAR S I AM ELEGANT ECRU ED I NA SAX MORSEL BASEL I NE GATE A I L ALAN LUNA TRY SENT ELAN WEETHINKER: Across: 1 Book; 4 Carat; 7 Malta; 8 Villa; 9 Salon; 10 Revelation; 14 Gaelic; 16 Office; 17 Celebrated; 22 Polka; 23 Flare; 25 Cadet; 26 Smart; 27 Pass.

Very highly recommended reading, Kathryn's Beach clearly documents Nadine Laman as a superb author with the ability to engage and hold the reader's rapt attention from first page to last.

By accelerating the pace at which the text appears on screen to a rate just within the threshold of human cognition, Chang coaxes you into a state of rapt concentration.

After numerous curtain calls for the cast, the man with hoe slowly rakes the rice into an infinite spiral, This fifteen-minute epilog, titled "Finale or the Beginning," holds us rapt. When it's done, we slowly file out, transformed by this highly theatrical, deeply spiritual experience.

Down: 1 Password; 2 Ram; 3 Water; 4 Shallow; 5 Espy; 6 Knee; 7 Cast; 11 Rapt; 12 Undo; 13 Newsreel; 15 Evident; 18 Trams; 19 Read; 20 Gags; 21 Rani; 24 Bee.

In writing The Tunnel Hoard, author Paul Rutherford drew upon his real-life experiences in the jungles of the Phillippines tracking down a vast cache of gold hidden by the Japanese during World War II, thereby infusing his action/adventure novel with a realism that quickly engages the reader's total and rapt attention from first page to last.

The girls listened, their faces rapt. Carmelita was wearing not teachers' clothes, such as I understood them to be, but white rompers with tiny blue dots, bare legs, white socks and pointe shoes.

It was fierce, it was tense, it was fraught, and we held our breath rapt in anticipation of the outcome.