Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...binding, but the leg chain was trickier. With pieces of thread shredded from his blindfold, Glass bound links of the chain together, and over a period of days fooled his guards into loosening the tether. On the first night that he could pull free, Glass waited until he could hear the snores of his guards. Loosening the chains, he slipped onto the balcony of the high-rise building where he was being held, then back into the apartment through another door, past the guards' bedroom and out the front door, which he locked behind him with...
...last film fellow to play Cyrano, Jose Ferrer in 1950, got a best-actor award. "I hope he wins an Oscar," says Martin Short, Steve's co-star in last year's Three Amigos!, "because he has prepared a tremendously funny acceptance speech. If the academy members want to hear it, they know what...
...bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully, "of course I feel like a Cuban." By the time the last weight was lowered, that anthem had lifted the hall 25 times...
...delivered in a deadpan monotone. Examples: "I was once arrested for walking in someone else's sleep." "When I die, I'm going to leave my body to science fiction." "I was walking through a forest and a tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear it." Like many comedians with a shtick, Wright (who grew up near Leno in Massachusetts and also got his start in Boston clubs) seems in danger of boxing himself into a performing corner. But he has branched out into movies, with roles in Desperately Seeking Susan and the upcoming Stars...
Just as athletes grab their discuses and bobsleds to compete in age-old competitions every quadrennium, Harvard summer school students will this week unsheathe their pens, take their seats and hear some grad student shout their equivilent, "Let the Games Begin...