Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard it on film and stage. Homer must have known someone very much like Richard Burton. Describing Odysseus' effect on an audience in a faraway land, the poet wrote: "He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear his voice, that list'ning still they seemed to hear...
Chernenko: Well, it looks like you guys have really screwed this one up. What are you going to do about it, or did I hear you say you like Siberia in the summertime...
Chernenko: Oh Chebbie, we should sign that man up for Kremlin speech-writing; he has such a catchy turn of the phrase. But what a dumkopf! Doesn't Buckley know that that kind of posturing only caters to the peaceniks and the detentists? I can already hear the shrieking in the halls of Harvard, about blacklisting and freedom of speech and all that other liberal clap-trap...
Chebrikov: Well, I stress I am now only speculating, but we think the American CIA has now started to suspect our disinformation techniques, and they are responding tit for tat. Did you hear what Reagan said "off the record" before his radio broadcast on Saturday: "My fellow Americans. I am pleased to announce I just signed legislation banning Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Can you imagine the field day the arms controllers are going to have. We could well have to go back to Geneva...
...doing anything in a superficial way," says Gilbert Kaplan, 43, the publisher of Institutional Investor. So he does. In 1982 the amateur musician rented Avery Fisher Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center and hired the American Symphony Orchestra so that 2,700 friends and associates could hear him conduct Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony. Last week Kaplan took another characteristically direct action. Increasingly distracted from the publishing company he founded 17 years ago, Kaplan announced its sale, in addition to 18 TV and radio stations, to Capital Cities Communications, owner of W and Women's Wear...