Word: earshot
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Scientists have long suspected that living or working within earshot of a major airport can be dangerous to health. Studies have linked high noise levels to hearing loss, nervous breakdowns, ulcers, hypertension and birth defects. Now a professor of the University of California at Los Angeles brings worse news: jet noise may kill...
...three or four years, and his girlfriend Rhyne was seeing less and less of the Jesse Bolt she knew and loved, more and more of the corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...
...subject of strikes seems to be taboo among the kitchen workers--at least when outsiders are within earshot. Thelma shies away from discussing a skirmish between kitchen employees and the University a few years ago, and she quickly asserts that the incident was just a little misunderstanding that had been all straightened out. On the other hand, John says, "we can't strike. It's not in the contract. We had a big argument about that." Most kitchen workers decline to talk about the possibility of a kitchen workers' strike similar to the one at Yale last fall. Union issues...
...march is well organized. Maybe a hundred march guides, keeping people from overflowing from their lane, where there are no cars, into a lane of opposing traffic. At the head of the long procession is a truck equipped with loudspeakers, leading those marchers within earshot in chants like, "Allan Bakke, he's no smarter, just a tool for Jimmy Carter...
Tonight at Peasant Stock Restaurant (354-9528, reservations necessary) the Cheap Trills String Band does it to anyone within earshot with a violin, mandolin, guitar and bass. "Bluegrass, Irish, swing and classical" influences here--could be interesting...