Word: aloud
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...grant that the trial of O.J. Simpson is a case unto itself. What with the consuming attention of the media, the camera-ready lawyering, the surrounding atmosphere -- alternately tragic and coarse, that seems like something from Dostoyevsky read aloud by Jackie Collins -- there's nothing typical about it. This would extend to the jury selection that begins this week. In a nation where jury duty is considered second only to a tax audit among the devices of government-inflicted pain, there are people who are struggling to sit in judgment on this one. Responses to jury call notices...
What happens, one female TF wondered aloud, "if you find the love of your life in the section...
...somehow set up the tableau. Others questioned his ethics. "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering," said the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, "might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." Even some of Carter's friends wondered aloud why he had not helped the girl...
...future is it? Literary purists wince at the prospect of tapes undermining the printed page. Yet listening to a book is not an experience to be sneered at. Storytelling began as an oral art, after all, and there can be something profoundly satisfying about hearing a book read aloud. In some ways an audio book demands more concentration than a printed one. Reading allows freedom -- the freedom to proceed at one's own pace, to stop and savor a passage, to pause and reread or jump ahead and skim. With an audio book, the pace is steady and unyielding...
THREE-TO-SIX-YEAR-OLDS: For the youngest set of computer users, simplicity rules. Reader Rabbit I from the Learning Company uses digitized speech to help youngsters read and spell; kids click on three-letter words to hear Reader Rabbit pronounce them aloud. Millie's Math House from Edmark has an animated talking cow that invites children into her home to learn about numbers, shapes and sizes. And just this month, Software Toolworks released Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! for Kids, a simplified version of a program for older children that has sold more than 3 million copies since...