And I've come to realize that it's not the new clothes or school supplies that make going back to school significant--although my heart still goes
pitter-pat at the sight of a brand new box of crayons at this time of year.
For everyone else, the resulting series is a bit of a snooze--handsome, yes, but about as compelling as the cover of a Harlequin Romance, and too flaccid to make hearts go
pitter-pat. More practically, Starz courts a different demographic with this show, which with a few trims could easily have wound up on Lifetime.
If your record them, you can fast forward through the agenda items that don't make your heart go
pitter-pat.
her nape was often hidden beneath her ebony mane, so when a woman put up her hair, it caused the same delicious
pitter-pat that Westerners may feel when they spot a woman in a low-cut dress." In the mid-1980s, she tells us, a popular Japanese woman's magazine printed photos of celebrities showing off the napes of their necks.
She yearns for a "father figure" in a President, but Bill is just a gifted teenager." And while "Newt is cute," Dowd sighs, he acts like "a chubby little boy with chocolate pudding smeared on his face." Only Colin Powell is man enough to make a poodle-skirted girl's heart go
pitter-pat - but, in teen beach movie fashion, he must slip away, leaving her heart broken but her virginity intact.
As for Jones' pre-fight comments about the effectiveness of Calzaghe's "pitter-pat" punches, even the American admitted he was seriously wrong.
Those pitter-pat punches he throws were a little harder than I thought."
"I knew he threw
pitter-pat punches," said a battered Jones, before disappearing to hospital for stitches in a nasty gash.
When the likes of Jimmy White leant over the table, the threads on his trousers straining, a million female hearts went
pitter-pat.