The Big Swing, a bungee-jumping company, is located off the side of a highway in Graskop (near Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga) so many of the customers are South African natives who need an impromptu pick-me-up on the road (when coffee just won't do).
Recently, on the way to visit pal Elizabeth Taylor at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Jackson made an impromptu stop to pick up a $10,000 bottle of perfume as a gift.
This impromptu remark was picked up by the press and used by her critics as evidence of her lack of respect for women who are full-time homemakers.
As I started to walk away, he bent down, and picked up a small white pearloid guitar pick off the impromptu stage, the very pick that Prince had tossed away as he left the stage.
The evening ended with an impromptu jam session as the musicians picked up their instruments and dancers started spinning around the living room.
Weekly lunches out of pocket, impromptu days off, trips to events where I pick up the tab, dessert runs on a random Tuesday afternoon.
Guests to the White House, she revealed, invariably had been surprised by his persistent yet patient, deliberate yet impromptu, Solomonic yet sophomoric, poking, prodding, probing and picking of brains.
During our earlier chat – which quickly devolved into a kind of impromptu therapy session, for reasons you might have picked up upon – Winfield-Chislett was quick to defend my dad for not showing me basic DIY skills.
With a generous publisher, I didn't even wrangle with an airline for months over who picked up the tab for my impromptu holiday; and there are worse places to get stranded than funky Amsterdam.
The piece in question is the "Anvil Chorus" from Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il trovatore," and Sevdayan plans to pick someone from the crowd to provide an impromptu rhythm.
In their two and a half days in coal country here, the Soviet miners were shown schools, picket lines and union rallies that evolved into impromptu square dances, the music courtesy of a guitar-picking sheriff.
