Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courtrooms the spectators' galleries are filled every day with pensioners, law students and secretaries who put office life on hold to hear accounts of greed and cruelty or to see the rich and famous sent plunging down the slots of institutional justice. They flaunt their detailed knowledge of the cases and refer to the central figures by their first names. They have come to hear riveting testimony or to see "star lawyering." They have flocked to peer at Myerson. ("She's marvelous-looking!" exclaims Sam Margolis, 71, a retired school principal.) Others come because the courthouse scene has become...
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...
...surprise, he says, was that "parts of the show were funny. because we rehearsed so much, the parts that I had directed as funny just weren't anymore. It was pleasant to hear the audience laugh...
Laughter was one of the things that made Shapiro happiest on opening night, too, he says. "If I do something on stage and I hear someone laugh I think `Oh my God, what's more important than hearing someone laugh?'" says Shapiro...
...important for the faculty to hear each other as it was for the students to ask questions and hear what the faculty had to say," said committee member Jeffrey C. Levy...