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...stood in the stinging cold for 15 minutes before the bus came. It was crowded, but I managed to find a seat in the back. It was a good seat from which I could easily eavesdrop on four or five different conversations. For a while I listened to an elderly woman complain to the young man beside her about the constant snow. It was the worst winter she could remember, and today she was especially angry because the weather had forced her bridge club to cancel its weekly party...
Ralph: These people have nothing better to do than eavesdrop on interruptions...
...very nearly enough. Many of his sharpest thrusts are contained in throwaway lines, which may be all but covered by the overlapping dialogue Altman loves to use. He demonstrates an uncanny skill at staging. His camera seems to eavesdrop almost simultaneously on a dozen conversations that reveal, in a few lines of dialogue or a fleeting expression, brilliantly encapsulated characterizations. As always, his location is full of expressive artifacts, shrewdly chosen and revealed...
...core of Rukeyser's ventures remains Wall Street Week. Part of its appeal is that it creates a kind of party atmosphere in which viewers seem to eavesdrop on what investment professionals say to each other in private. The set resembles an upper-middle-class living room. Rukeyser begins with a five-minute summary of the week in business. He then opens a discussion with three analysts of the latest trends in the market and the financial world. Finally, the main guest?usually a member of the Administration or the business establishment?is brought in for a freewheeling...
...against NATO forces in Central Europe. Its location enables Turkey to monitor Soviet warships, including submarines, passing from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean and to deny overflight rights to Russian warplanes headed for the Middle East. Three U.S.-manned electronic surveillance bases, due to resume operations shortly, can eavesdrop on the U.S.S.R.'s underground nuclear explosions and missile tests and even tune in radio traffic between Soviet aircraft...