He shouted the question loudly, rounding on the startled audience.

And on the velvet benches of the Trocadero Restaurant, members of the Irish Modern Dance Theater sat among the members of their startled audience and unleashed a noisy torrent of performance-art antics.

Instantly a picture formed, and the startled audience saw a three dimensional, exterior view of the city.

She only cupped one hand over the earbug she kept tuned at all times to the Flag communications center, and her startled audience could actually see the color draining from her face.

He heard himself, standing before a startled audience, proclaiming, "I have decided that no one in this room, including your pastor, believes in the Christian religion.

O dove with the white, white breast," shrilled Dorothea to her startled audience.

Beach Balls of Reform The proposals are presented as large striped beach balls kicked mightily into the startled audience by an indefatigable clown who spouts one-liners: "The people don't need to eat or drink.

The country's well-known Muslim comic, Shabana Rehman, decided to find out Tuesday when she lifted the founder of Iraq's Ansar al-Islam terrorist group off the ground before a startled audience.

At the beginning of the intermission, the startled audience was asked to remain seated without talking or coughing.

It was the dropping of a guillotine ax, its echoes chilling as they rang through the startled audience.