Word: deafness
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...later, a visibly incensed Prodi declared to a swarm of television cameras that Tronchetti Provera had kept him out of the loop about any planned sell-offs. The would-be statesman of Lebanon sounded like he could barely run his own country. But the center-left leader's tone-deaf display was just the beginning of trouble. In the two weeks since, widespread doubts have been revived about Prodi's leadership skills and the government's commitment to economic reforms. Tronchetti Provera suddenly resigned on Sept. 15, followed by the resignation of Angelo Rovati, Prodi's top economic advisor. Then...
When I visited him in the hospital after the attack, he was ailing. Diabetic, deaf and almost sightless--yet he was, in his way, full of life. For years afterward, he held salons at which he encouraged people to discuss literature and world events. "I feel no hatred," he told me once, "but it is very bad to try to kill someone for a book you haven't read...
...Still Dirrty. If we're monitoring her feud with a former producer, there's a score-settling taunt ("Looks like I didn't need you"). And anyone who finishes both discs with unanswered questions about her much publicized marriage to music executive Jordan Bratman is obviously stone deaf. Aguilera isn't singing pop on these songs; she's preaching to an imagined choir, and she saves her worst for last. Thank You (Dedication to Fans) is a maudlin montage of voice-mail messages from people--soldiers in Iraq, kids on the edge--whom her music has inspired. Its inclusion...
...stuff," says Steele, 49. Throw in quotas and faster boats, and "it's a day game now." Still, in fishing season the days start at about 3 a.m. and leave Steele exhausted. Decades at sea have taken their toll on his skin and his hearing: "I'm half-deaf from the rumble of motors...
...credit of the Postmaster's General's Office, that they have permitted the book to be freely sold and to travel unhindered through the mails these last 12 years." Attentive ears could detect the sound of sucking up to the Post Office. (Those kind words would fall on deaf ears...