Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gotta watch out though," the boy cautioned. "Like, you ever hear about Ronald? Man, that was such a drag. Ronald, he went into this really fancy store and goes upstairs. There are only two people up there, right, and then they go like into this other room. Ronald, he, thinks hey they're gone, so he like takes something and slips it under his shirt...
...what can you do when the leader of the West is such a stickler for rules. So I cried to him, "Oh great arbiter of the West, please hear my cries. I pray to you have mercy (another great Western trait) on my soul and let me rejoin the just philosophical tradition that I learned at my mother's bosom. Your judgement is the right judgement Mr. President, and I obey your commands but now please reconsider. Please, pleeeze...." He didn't listen...
...nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what a considerable number of people are ready to hear...
What they used to hear was a single voice lifting the words from the page, and many novels and short stories are still recorded plain, unadorned by music or echo chambers. But the tape of Stephen King's The Mist is enhanced by what Simon & Schuster calls 3-D sound: voices are accompanied by rustling leaves, slithering tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok...
...mother who read to us every night. I cherish the memory of her voice. In recording Patricia MacLachlan's work, I believe I am keeping alive a good tradition." Updike is both a recorder of his own work and an avid listener to colleagues: "I love to hear authors themselves reading their work. The voice, one presumes, is the voice they are hearing in their heads as they write...