Word: overhearing
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...working-class white men in warmup jackets and Nikes. A few conventiongoers are accompanied by wives or girlfriends, but there are no virtually no females participating in the event, and I hear of only one woman in attendance who actually plays the instrument. But it's pleasantly jarring to overhear a couple of old guys at the bar discussing the advantages of analog versus digital reverb, and I even hear a pedal steel joke: Why should you always carry your tone bar with you? Because if you were killed in an accident and they only found fingerpicks on you, they...
...Authority of New York and New Jersey. "We occupied the whole 73rd floor, more than 200 people in cloth-covered steel cubicles. Sitting, you were alone; standing, you could look directly into someone else's cube. I fixed my computer so passersby couldn't see it. But you could overhear everyone's phone conversations, and rumors spread quickly...
Cambridge's high population density both encourages domestic violence by placing people in close quarters, and makes it easier for neighbors to overhear fights and report them to police...
...Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera a few feet from JonBenet's resting place. For three days, they mounted round-the-clock surveillance from the window of a nearby high school, hoping to overhear a graveside confession from one of the many mourners who trooped by. But the effort netted little more than curious gawkers--and a salesman who signed up an elderly couple for a nearby burial plot...
...During a commercial break, Carson chats with Kid Rock on his cell phone. It's just another phone call for Carson, but we all sit in silence, impressed and anxious to overhear. Girls ask him to sign dollar bills, t-shirts, old receipts, anything that they have on them. One girl in a binding tank top gets him to sign her hand. A smart-ass friend of hers reminds her that she'll have to wash her hand eventually. I can't tell whether the girl is going to cry or punch her friend in the nose. She rubs...