Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ETTA JAMES: SEVEN YEAR ITCH (Island). Attention: danger of electric shock. High-voltage R. and B. from a woman who has so much funk, soul, sex and humor that, on a tune like Jump into My Fire, you can hear the flames crackle...
Although he was a faithful letter writer, Cheever assumed that his pen pals would destroy his missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire...
Number 20 commands the court. You see her everywhere--blocking shots, going for the basket. You hear her voice rising above the play and into the rafters. You see her drive propelling her to do better, to work harder...
There are other ways to deal. My roommate reacted to the shock by swallowing a goodly portion of Absolut, which was a mistake from his point of view (which was mostly upside-down, over a vomit-filled trash can), but gave me the opportunity to hear the uninhibited ramblings of a highly intelligent, avidly political Slavic major who was shocked to his soul by the victory of two men like George Bush and Dan Quayle...
...proposed to replace the houses with a hotel, and the Rent Control Board originally approved the plan. But tenant activists appealed the board's decision and a superior court judge recently sent the proposal back to the city board to hear more evidence...