Word: earshot
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After you've dug your swimsuit out of the bottom of your closet and proclaimed to anyone within earshot that you are going to come back with a tan, you might start to think about the place you are going to visit. Do you need a visa? What's the drinking age? Are American condoms readily available? This will not be, after all, a mind-broadening, different-lifestyle-experiencing, cultural trip. It will be hot and seething with alcohol and debauchery...
...beyond earshot of the festivities were the sounds of a city falling apart. In Gert Town, a 13-square-block warren of ramshackle cottages and ! abandoned apartments, crack deals were made as children played amid broken glass and litter. As night fell, there and across the city streets emptied and residents retreated behind double-locked doors and iron grates...
...earshot, some California vintners complain that Parker is unfair to their state's wines. That's a canard when you consider his consistent raves for Kistler Chards, say, or Ravenswood Zinfandels. Still, wine buyers in need of a different perspective may cotton to The New Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines (Knopf; $24) by Norman S. Roby and Charles E. Olken. Their judgments are more muted than Parker's, but they appraise some competent producers -- Stags' Leap Winery in Napa County, for instance -- that he ignores...
...Popovic is better than he seems. The Serbian camps at Omarska and Trnopolje became notorious earlier in the year. Atrocity stories poured out of them -- beatings, torture, murders. Manjaca now seems disciplined, well regulated. The Serbs of course would not display it otherwise. The prisoners, out of earshot of their captors, speak well enough of the camp, and even compliment Popovic as strict but fair. Popovic returns, defensively wagging his finger, and says he can disprove all the lies the prisoners have been telling. Elie Wiesel raises his eyebrows: "Actually, Colonel...
...extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains gurgle, 325,000 newly planted trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another for their daily water ration from a small fountain...