Word: overheard
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...personal odyssey through alternative therapies began innocently in the late 1970s at a summer picnic in Canaan, Conn. One of the guests, a New Age true believer, overheard me say I was convinced that coffee was making my hands feel clammy though my doctor had scoffed at the connection. "You're allergic to caffeine, just like my husband," she said, and cheerfully proceeded to predict a succession of problems that would eventually leave me a twitching wreck. O.K., I said, irritated, but how would I stay awake to finish the book I was working on? "Try beer," offered another convert...
...Thomas dropped out of Missouri's Immaculate Conception Seminary after only eight months of studying for the Catholic priesthood. The reason: as word spread that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot, Thomas overheard a white seminarian say, "Good, I hope the son of a bitch dies...
...prototypes of what will become Shakespeare's stock characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
...seems like we've been duped," our reporter overheard one would-be audience member grumbling...
...platefuls of corned brisket, half-sour pickles and baked apples later, a certain Crimson editor was overheard vowing never to take anonymous tips lightly again...