Word: earshot
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...emotional welt at the Cannes Film Festival is to mention a posh party you attended and say, "Everyone was there." (What this usually means is that either you are important enough to be given an invitation or you ain't too proud to beg for one.) Inevitably someone within earshot will grumble, "Well, I wasn...
...Spain and Denmark leading. The Netherlands will soon be getting into the game in a big way, building one of the world's largest wind farms some 8 km offshore, a remote location that can take advantage of brisk sea breezes while keeping the noisy mills out of human earshot...
...line because that fabulous soliloquy is no longer something to be said by a character; it is something to be mouthed by an audience. One can hardly go to a production of Hamlet without sitting in earshot of somebody whispering right along with Hamlet’s musings. The worst actors play into this instinct in audiences, trying to win favor by second-guessing their expectations and putting new twists on old lines. But in the end their performance becomes nothing more than a collection of lines. They haven’t even done so much as to interpret...
...coal-fired power plants. The Netherlands will soon be getting into the game in a big way, building one of the world's largest wind farms five miles offshore, a remote location that can take advantage of brisk sea breezes while keeping the sometimes noisy mills out of human earshot. Similar wind farms built in a place like North Dakota could generate not just energy but profits. Farmers earn $50 an acre from wheat, but could reap $2,000 an acre selling wind-generated power...
...course, I'm not sure how this would be relaxing. (My kids treat a weekend business call as an invitation to start bickering and pinching within earshot.) But letting work invade their home made parents feel more in control of both, according to detailed, two-week logs they kept. They wrote that they were able to coordinate their schedules and their responsibilities, and so felt less anxiety, says Meredith Fischer, co-author of the study...