Mr. Schiefen, dressed in sweat pants and a T-shirt, sat wide-eyed and fidgety, according to the investigators' accounts.
Until one Saturday afternoon, when he sat wide-eyed watching the ABC program "Wide World of Sports".
For Mr. Conley, the theater director, who sat wide-eyed watching Mr. Danti's dance rehearsal, the festival is also the fulfillment of a dream.
Inside the living-room-size control booth, the always calm Bob Clearmountain, a secret rock legend in his own right (sound mixer and producer extraordinaire and whose wife, Betty Bennett, is Apogee's C.E.O. and founder), sat wide-eyed and ready at the control board.
Here, the untouched version of "Vesti la giubba" may be the key to the prank: it's as if the listener, having sat wide-eyed and mouth agape through 16 sonically colorized tracks, were at last allowed to hear Caruso in his own element and to realize that RCA and Mr. Werba were only kidding.
On Thursday, 26-year-old Nesrin Abs stood quietly crying outside Munich station, dabbing her eyes and nose with a rough piece of paper towel as her two young sons, 5 and 9, sat wide-eyed beside her.
The format of Match of the Day is this: selected highlights from the day's Premier League games are shown in a completely non-biased order of importance (*1), then three to four men mildly discuss them while sat wide-legged on what appears to be the futuristic prow of a hyperspace ship.
At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.
It's a strange kind of affordability, though: Because tourists have yet to return en masse, the budget options sit wide out in the open, just waiting to be picked.
Audiences sit wide-eyed and enraptured.
Peeps dioramas sit, wide-eyed, at the intersection of consumerist kitsch and a surprisingly earnest engagement with current events and history.
