Word: earshot
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...Street. He said when he is in New York, he likes to slip out on the street and play a tune or two because you can pick up cash quickly that way. Then he got his guitar, an expensive Martin, and after making sure there were no women in earshot, he swung into Catfish Blues, a song so lowdown nasty he said "I ain't gon' give you too much." Most of the verses were difficult to understand -- there was something about "belly to belly" and "skin to skin" in the middle there -- but it did sound downright filthy nonetheless...
...send a message" to the Board of Directors of a company and/or other stockholders, why use such an indirect means as the sale of stock, which has no impact on the company? Why not stand up at a stockholders meeting and directly tell the Board of Directors (within earshot of other stockholders) exactly what you think? Selling stock deprives one of this opportunity and has no effect on the company's conduct of business. Samuel O. Sheargren...
...Long Island Rail Road is, on the whole, one of the 14 most uncomfortable things a human being can do, vying for pride of place with one of its associated enterprises, the New York City subway system, and root-canal surgery. To her surprise, all the inadvertent intimates within earshot protest vehemently. "It's not as bad as you make it sound," argues a gentleman who is traveling with a box containing a large chiming clock. "So you're stuck belly to belly with a stranger. At least you're with the nicest commuters." He does not mean nicer than...
Seldom is her collaboration as bald-faced as it was at an impromptu press conference last August in California: when the President hesitated after a question about arms control, she whispered an all-purpose answer ("We're doing everything we can") within earshot of reporters, which the President then repeated as his own. (Both Reagans claim that she was just talking to herself, not intending to cue him at all.) In her serious intramural forays at the White House, she is fairly subtle, talking up ideas from Baker and Deaver to her husband, as well as transmitting intelligence about...
Sound tantalizing? Well, it is all within earshot if your radio is tuned to one of the 277 American Public Radio affiliates across the country, any one of which might feature just such an eclectic sampling. These stations air not only Keillor's whimsically witty Prairie Home Companion but a diverse medley of classical music programs including High Performance, a kind of Great Performances of jazz, classical and folk music, and highlights of music festivals from Bayreuth to Spoleto. APR takes its culture-vulturing seriously: with 70% of its programming consisting of classical music, it is the arty counterpart...