Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several people close to Jackson relented. Joseph and Katherine Jackson, Michael's parents, granted Worrell their first interviews in five years. And even though Michael himself continued to be elusive, Worrell remained an admirer. Says she: "At the worst times, when I was the most frustrated, I would hear his Billie Jean on the radio, or his Beat It video would come on MTV. Then all the frustration would evaporate, and I would have to smile...
...agree with Burger's complaints about litigation "mania." Petty suits are being filed daily. A man sues a company for damages suffered when he could not hear traffic because he was wearing earphones. A drunk sues a bar because it should have refused to serve him. Some lawyers are accepting these cases; otherwise lawsuits could never be filed...
...seriously worried about the growing danger of being replaced by composer-programmed computer synthesizers [Music, Feb. 27]. Now that the function of producing music is more and more in the hands of composers and nonmusicians, a rift is forming between performers and composers. Composers can now afford to hear their work directly and economically on the synthesizers and have consequently come into direct competition with musicians, their onetime partners. One thing is dead certain: audiences will never pay to watch a computer operator walk onto a stage and press PLAY...
Back in the 1950s, Old Joe explained, he had been in Germany with Boston's then Archbishop Richard Cushing. One night in Frankfurt they wandered out to a Graham rally. "My God," recounted Old Joe, "there must have been 30,000 Germans out to hear this guy. I turned to the Archbishop and said, 'What's he got?' And then I said, 'Whatever it is, Jack had better get to know him.'" If memory is not too dim, Old Joe then said he had looked Graham up after the rally and suggested the reverend...
...turn around and walk down the hallway again, but this time to the far end of the house. I am still following Jackson. He knocks on a closed door. "Michael, I have someone I want you to meet." I can't hear what Michael says. "Can I bring her into your room?" asks Joe. He opens the door. The only light comes from a television set. The light glistens off Michael's hair. He and a young man who looks about 20 are sitting side by side on straight-backed chairs facing the television. Michael is watching...