Word: overheards
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Humphreys does much of her writing at an office in an attractively ruinous building in Charleston that once housed Confederate widows. That is where the porter asked her if she would talk to Bolton about her "book." He had overheard Bolton discussing it at the nursery and said he knew someone who could help. At that point the effort consisted of 58 pages, handwritten on looseleaf paper and kept in a red folder marked "Parent Handbook" that Bolton's seven-year-old daughter had brought home from school...
...Overheard an infuriatingly banal comment in the dining hall the other...
According to The Boston Globe, one of the jurors was overheard discussing the case last week in front of the Post Office Square parking structure...
...wife/mom Caroline (Judy Davis) has her entire family wear Scandinavian candle-wreaths on their heads. When the camera pans around the dining room table allowing viewers a glimpse of each family member with a candle-wreath on his or her head, the audience erupts in laughter. Overheard by this reporter in the bathroom after the movie: "I thought I was gonna die when they had those candles on their heads...
...until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find a job. "How am I supposed to live?" he asks bitterly. He earns...