Word: eavesdropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illness, appeared to be the principal cause of their muteness. The ferocious and deeply feared Angka (literally, organization), represented by top-ranking Khmer Rouge cadres, had followed the civilians into exile. Under Pol Pot civilians were constantly warned not to make idle conversation; small children were trained to eavesdrop on their elders and report all conversations to Angka cadres. In a camp near Sakaew, refugees are being watched by Khmer officers who try to make sure they give ideologically correct answers to foreigners' queries. One refugee who talked freely with her brother, a longtime émigré in Thailand...
Later, during the night he spends in Lonoff's study, Nathan climbs atop a writing desk and a Henry James novel, then presses his ear to the ceiling to better eavesdrop on a pathetic love dialogue between Lonoff and Amy. Safely descending his makeshift ladder, he laments...
...which allowed her to work on her writing even when she was not putting pen to paper. In a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. Tillie explains the state of mind that remains when a writer is silenced by circumstance. "She (Davis) must have had to use 'trespass vision'; eavesdrop, ponder everything, dwell within it with all the resources of intellect and imagination...each opportunity for knowing seized... And in the process the noting of reality was transformed into comprehension, Vision...
...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...
...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...