Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hearing Layton issue a stiff command, Tucker said the director is not nearly so harsh as the first-night audience, Dare County citizens all. "The county is the toughest audience we have to play to. They talk during the performance until they hear a change. They don't care if your feelings are hurt...
...other participants, to hear them tell it. "We're doing history here," said Construction Worker Eric Crawford. "It's something to tell your children about," said Anita Saunders, a high-stepper with the Locke Senior High School marching band, "and everybody else." Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show...
NEARLY EVERY young child has hidden in doorways, crept downstairs, and lain awake in bed at night, listening to the hushed grownup voices he is not meant to hear. These glimpses into the adult world often give the child far greater insight than his parents realize. In the opening scenes of an enchanting new Australian film, Careful He Might Hear You, a wide-eyed six-year-old boy lies awake as his anxious parents discuss his fate and admonish each other for speaking too loudly, afraid they will let him hear too much. This preoccupation with sheltering the boy from...
...heard too much for his age, but he can deal with the flaws in his aunts and uncles better than they can. The title's irony is gently funny, and Gledhill gives us one of the most sincere and substantial child characters in films today. Careful He Might Hear You is not to be missed...
...trials, the women's world-record holder from Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on her complaining right knee, which finally shut down completely in practice. With microscissors, the doctor snipped a tight bundle of inflamed tissue from just behind the joint on the outside of the knee. "You could hear it snap," he said. "It was like cutting a rubber band...