Word: earshot
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...reprobate and a womanizer but said he was a genius. "This boy can make a bomb out of anything," Windsor said. Billy Arthur Jr. was then asked what was the point of his bombs, and he said, "To make a big noise, of course." Anyone within earshot who possessed common sense then gazed heavenward, anticipating a collapsing Taurus...
...camera, Donaldson titillates and embarrasses the press corps by shouting out, often within earshot of public figures, the sort of tasteless jokes that other reporters only murmur. Says a former ABC colleague: "People often find him boorish and obnoxious." Admits Donaldson: "I cause myself a lot of trouble with my deportment, and I am less than thrilled about that." Yet Donaldson seems a mascot rather than an outcast among the White House-beat regulars. They are used to his Peck's Bad Boy manner and enjoy his outbursts against the White House staff for manipulating access to the President...
Some of the former models can actually act. Selleck reminds anyone within earshot that he studied the craft for 15 years. On-camera, he has the charm and unthreatening masculinity of a slightly more serious Burt Reynolds. Others are getting on-the-job training. "I try as hard as I can, but I see where I need improvement," says Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren...
...with perplexing, often contradictory, statements. There was much confusion about whether Reagan did indeed plan to send more advisers. Washington had hoped that its idea for early elections would be seen solely as a Salvadoran initiative, but the top U.S. official entrusted with the negotiations blabbed about them within earshot of a reporter. The bungling made a skittish Congress even more skeptical of White House plans. Conceded an Administration official: "This is an unfortunate way to do business. We're talking first and deciding what we mean afterward...
...journeyed to Poland to bolster the spirits of his countrymen in the face of Communist oppression. He has visited Britain and Argentina while they were at war with each other. Before the leaders of Brazil and the Philippines he has decried violations of human rights. Within earshot of the Northern Ireland border he has denounced terrorism. But none of Pope John Paul II's 16 previous foreign tours was as perilous, in terms of either church politics or of his own physical safety, as the one he begins this week...