Word: earshot
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...This is not simply a result of its intimate ambience (with room for no more than a dozen or so, an evening there has the air of a private party). It's also due to its sequestered location on Tolo Harbour - within sight of rocky islets and earshot of lapping waves - as well as the superb cooking of Gary Cheuk, who presents a changing degustation menu nightly. Then there's the sheer delight of stumbling, with your loved one, upon such a gorgeous little place in the dark: if romance isn't kindled amid the crystal and candlelight of this...
...Catalán.At first there was no problem: The hospital staff with whom I worked always spoke Castellan—Iberian Spanish—and the patients would in turn respond in Castellan. Everyone accommodated and willingly put aside their Catalán when I was within earshot. While my American accent did not convince anyone that I was a local and my occasional lapse of grammar or vocabulary made my origin even more obvious, I could still understand and be understood. That is until I had Catalán to contend with.After two weeks, I worked with a different...
...land where they were mounding up dirt. Bounding past the officials, he turned his camera on a bird's nest high up in a poplar next to the mineral spring supposed to supply the lake. "He even takes pictures of that," marveled one official when Yu was out of earshot. Driving through town Yu passed a cluster of empty villas, waiting for the lakeside they'd overlook. Nearby, on a fenced-off piece of grass grazed an elephant and a giraffe, both made of plaster...
...onto a lower side shelf. Seeger looked horrified. On the spot, she unleashed her cell phone and left a pointed message for an underling to call her back. It was a theatrical gesture, but she didn't seem to be doing it for Batali, who was well out of earshot. "We love this product," Seeger told me emphatically. (In the end, Sur La Table did order the risotto pan for its stores this year...
...aptitude of women in science just over a year ago. Arranged in a v-shape, they pointed directly at the University president and took down his every word. But for nearly a month after the speech, the tapes remained tucked away in a drawer in Massachusetts Hall, outside the earshot of the public...