For an instant, stepping out on to the roof, there was an, "Oh my gosh, we're actually doing this" moment, a split-second of terror, and then we got the momentum.
It was after she had knocked down a loaded tea tray just be walking past and somehow at the same instant stepped on the flowered-china pot that her father asked me to do something about her.
All talk of a Sprint buyout aside, if Vonage, the largest country's largest VoIP operator (I'm not counting Skype here) dies, it will be an instant step back for VoIP as a technology, and will almost certainly mean at least a few more years before the entire country ditches their landlines for good.
Cam asks Duyen to deliver a letter to Tho (Johnny Tri Nguyen), a handsome, seductive lothario and tourist guide who physically hurls himself on Duyen the instant she steps into his lair.
They open with their taut and moody gospel-punk comeback single "Sacrilege," and from the instant Karen O steps out, dressed as some sort of high-ranking disco civil servant in spangly suit and silver hat, no one is looking anywhere else but at this most magnetic performer's every move.
With "The Force Awakens" opening in theaters on Thursday night, the "Star Wars" actor has, at most, 72 hours to relish the possibility that large crowds might not maul him the instant he steps outside.
But the instant they step off the escalator, riders also step backward through 50 years of neglect, confronting what may be the most hideous spot in the station: a six-foot-tall overhanging wall so encrusted with rust and mold and fuzz and exposed wires that it is painful to gaze upon.
Kinsler, in full stride, grasped the ball in his glove at almost the same instant he stepped on the base.
The audience needed to believe that whoever played Barrymore, from the instant he stepped onstage, was an Olympian Hamlet, a devastating seducer, and everyone's favorite scoundrel.
