Word: earful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desk clerk (the excellent Paul Benedict). The clerk hardly listens, but that doesn't matter. Erie could be speaking to a barkeep or a stranger on a bus, or to a mute God on a slow night in limbo. He's a nonstop mouth in search of an open ear...
...Haley Barbour hovered near To whisper in each speaker's ear, "The polls, my friend, will surely rise, If we can just de-Houstonize...
...colleagues found him personally aloof, they also knew no one worked harder to ease their lives, rescheduling votes around fund raisers, personal trips, the school play. Dole liked to hold court in the cloakroom, ear to the ground, counting votes, making wisecracks. Larry Pressler, an occasionally clueless South Dakotan, was a favorite target. Dole once came down to the Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole...
Several other Harvard teaching hospitals did well in individual specialties. The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary won first in otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat). The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was third for cancer diagnosis and treatment. McLean Hospital placed third for psychiatry. Beth Israel was fifth in geriatrics. And Children's Hospital won first place in pediatrics, including care of adolescents...
...death throes," and streets are "rivers of flame." Rosso, at a difficult moment, thinks "the buck stops here." No, the reader reflects, it was Harry Truman who thought that. Rosso needs a dialogue coach, and his author, alas for what otherwise is an effective novel, needs treatment for tin-ear disease...