Word: eavesdrop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, it is precisely because so much of the tourist industry slows down during the winter that so many travelers are attracted to the off-season. The low season is a blessed chance to eavesdrop on real life in a spirit of calm and privacy. Even the cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table...
...from the U.S. to England and, once there, his disastrous marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, a vivacious but increasingly unstable partner whom Virginia Woolf once described as a "bag of ferrets" around Eliot's neck. To read The Waste Land's overwhelming catalog of cultural decay is also to eavesdrop on a typical evening with Mr. and Mrs. Eliot. The wife is overheard: "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me./ Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak...
...variety of listening posts, including low-flying "ferret" satellites, ships loaded with antennas and a network of ground stations in countries that are close to the Soviet Union, such as Norway and China. By monitoring radio frequencies and telephone calls carried on microwaves, the listening posts can also eavesdrop on a broad range of Soviet military communications. Information can be gleaned, for example, on the movement of mobile weapons systems...
...sofas are shrouded with crumpled, much used sheets: this is a world of ceaseless, unsatisfying copulation. Although the sides of the stage are heaped with the bric-a-brac of elegance -- candelabra, statuary, flowers -- the characters seem more at home with simple louvered screens, behind which they peep and eavesdrop. The dialogue is fittingly brittle and epigrammatic. "When it comes to marriage," a much traveled woman says, "one man is as good as the next; and even the least accommodating is less trouble than a mother...
...process of striking his settlement with U.S. authorities, the relentless wheeler-dealer who earned the nickname "Ivan the Terrible" talked long and hard to investigators about the stock trades he had made using insider knowledge. He also reportedly allowed regulators to eavesdrop on and tape his telephone conversations as he conducted his business dealings. Last week Boesky's singing began to discomfit some of the biggest names in the corporate-takeover business. Said Pierre Rinfret, head of a Wall Street investment and consulting firm: "This...