Word: overheards
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...DIARY reflects a diffusion between the poet's life and work that eludes anecdote, rumor or publisher's blurbs. The song wafted from a nearby taverna and overheard at night; the grace in three ancient pieces of a fallen lintel lit by the noon sun; grief for a cat's death. This interplay of nature, humanity and inanimate objects that affects the fragile balance of Seferis's poetry, always startles...
...playing to win!" he screamed at Dark after a game against the White Sox. "If you don't start playing aggressive baseball, I'll kick your [expletive deleted] ass out of here. We won two years without you, and we can win again without you." Those who overheard the explosion say that it was quintessential Finley...
...rescued Dark from oblivion was none other than Charles O. Finley. The first managerial stint for Finley lasted a year and a half before Dark was ousted for insubordination-he incensed Finley by refusing to fire a player for using obscenities in public that Dark had not overheard. From Kansas City, he went to Cleveland where he was once again dismissed. Among the reasons: poor press relations and an even poorer won-lost record...
...rigorous defenses, and threatens the careful distance that he preserves between his profession and his conscience. Harry's misgivings are refracted in a series of visual metaphors: the confessional, for instance, becomes not only a tentative purging but also another ritual of ruptured privacy, of secrets overheard. Outside Harry's apartment window, a power shovel digs, an image that will be deepened and expanded at the film's end when Caul becomes the victim of his own technological virtuosity...
...abductors got in touch with an FBI agent impersonating her husband, he began relaying coded messages over the police radio on how the $200,000 ransom demand should be delivered. Other agents received the messages, which kept referring on the air to "the package"; the messages were also overheard by anyone, including newsmen, who happened to be monitoring weather reports on a citizens' band frequency close to the police radio wave length. Though the FBI had hoped to keep its contacts with the kidnapers secret-it still did not know where Mrs. Kronholm was being held -the Trib revealed...