Even during a crucial phase of a match, he was likely to do something bizarre that would entertain the crowd.

Stephenson said " I never tried to entertain the illusion that I was going to write something that had no trace of the 20th or the 21st century in it.

As time goes on, Torremolinos begins to lose its luster ; Monica is partying too much for her own good and Gretchen starts to look for something else to entertain her, and the characters leave Torremolinos in Gretchen's yellow pop top and head towards Portugal.

Mobiles are popular in the nursery, where they hang over cribs to give infants something to entertain them and give them external visual stimulation.

Rather than be used as sex slaves, the General instead had the women act out Kabuki plays to entertain the soldiers, something that was met with scorn by his son, who fast made " Kabuki " a derogatory term among the ranks.

" The podcast started out as something alien and unwanted to us, but then quickly morphed into something we loved, as we realized the opportunities it gave us to entertain folks and connect with our audience in an entirely different, and much more immediate way.

* Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans

The GDC can also entertain interpleader causes of action, allowing a party holding something of value to force all competing claimants to litigate which of them has the superior claim.

Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.

The defect of these proposals is in their attempt to outrun history and their assumption that because something may be desirable it is also possible.

`` You don't believe that autistic children become autistic because of something that happens to them or because of the way their mother treats them.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.

It always came on, faithfully, just like a radio or juke box, whenever he started to worry too much about something, when the bad things tried to push their way into him.

Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.

One subject changed when given only the information that some people have something happen to their arm when they relax.

Five subjects ( 12% ) did not change until they had been told that some people have something happen to their arm, what that something was, and also were given a demonstration.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.

They may even dismiss it from their minds as something that concerns only the `` ecclesiastical Rover Boys '', as someone has dubbed them, who like to go to national and international assemblies, and have expense accounts that permit them to do so.

they subsequently occupied their leisure hours in searching for something exciting and diverting.

Erikson has postulated that such ideological polarization temporarily resolves their search for something stable and definite in the rapidly changing and fluctuating no-man's-land between childhood and adulthood.

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

They run their show their way -- the Universe has variety, something for everybody -- a fact you field workers often miss ''.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

Benchmark testing on the two computers running their respective programs might look something like the following:

These specialty and pay BBSes usually had something special to offer their users such as large file libraries, warez, pornography, chat rooms or Internet access.

Not until F. W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 did ex-Bletchley Park staff feel free to reveal something of their wartime work.

Despite a fallout from record sales, Brown enjoyed something of a resurgence in this period starting with cameo roles in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit and Rocky IV, as well as guest starring in the Miami Vice episode " Missing Hours " ( 1988 ).

* El Hormiguero ( 2006 — present ) — in this Spanish TV show, at least once a week in the segment El Efecto Mariposa ( The Butterfly Effect ), a Rube Goldberg machine is developed whose final part tends to show something related to that day's guest.

Occasionally, there would be a " Maverick Round " where a guest would have to stand centre stage and represent something " via the medium of dance ", or " The gift of the air guitar " as previously mentioned.

" Dwarf waiters then served Amanda and the guest spaghetti, and the guests usually say something silly but appropriate, such as King Henry VIII saying " Long live the me.

McCloud was portrayed as something of a ladies ' man, and the characters played by the frequent female guest stars would often fall for his protective charm.

They could be as harmless as wanting to be reunited with a lost love to something more dangerous like tracking down a cold-blooded killer that murdered someone close to the guest.

Then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton was a guest on the show in June 1992, playing " Heartbreak Hotel " on the saxophone ( causing Arsenio to quip, " It's nice to see a Democrat blow something besides the election ").

That often entailed intentionally " stirring the pot " by putting through callers willing to say something outrageous or to bring up something that would get a reaction from the guest that's on the air.

The lyrics were apparently based on something sung by a party guest at one of the member's homes.

Most often, the guest was someone who had done something to hurt a friend or relative, in which case the guest hoped the other person would forgive him ; sometimes, the guest was the one wronged by someone else, and wanted an apology from the second person.

The special guest is often on the show to promote something, like a new film, show or book.

While he and Elizabeth are out with Stephen Norton, another guest and a birdwatcher, Norton sees something through his binoculars that seems to upset him.

Parker said they decided to cast a famous actor in the small role of Sparky because " we thought it was funny ", and because they wanted to do something different from the animated series The Simpsons, which is known for having prominent guest appearances on a regular basis.

" Lee continued, " Of course, I probably said something wrong to him, or he didn't like my table manners, because I haven't been invited back for another guest shot.

: One of the questions each week was selected randomly during the Friday segment, and Maddow rewarded the listener with a prize package that always consisted of a glossy autographed photo of Kent Jones ( still given away despite his leaving the show ) and something from her desk ( usually a book written by a previous day's guest and anything else she could find that is worthy of giving away ).

The other guest looks inside the room and something about it is tempting him to enter, but Enslin warns him not to.

In late 1953, " I'd Like To Be ..." was replaced with " Secret Wish ", in which the panel attempted to guess something that the guest would secretly like to do or have happen ( for example, Kirk Douglas wished to coach the Vassar lacrosse team, and Van Johnson wanted Marilyn Monroe to sit on his lap ).

* Alan is an unexpected party guest, Michael's allegedly straight college friend, who is in town and anxious to tell Michael something — but hesitant to do so when he sees the group.

She made two guest appearances on the TV series Night Court: an uncredited one in the season 4 episode ' Murder ' in which she plays a woman who cheerfully confesses to her husband's murder but may be hiding something, and another, credited, role in the season 6 episode ' The Game Show ' where she played Judge Wilbur.

Since the name can easily be etymologised as meaning something like “ Dear guest ”, Radegast was proclaimed as the Slavic god of hospitality and as such entered the hypothetical, reconstructed Slavic pantheon of modern days.