Word: heard
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Congratulations on your stunning concert-stage engagement with [country-star] Shooter Jennings in June. Oh God. That was not stunning. I had my back turned toward him and the stage. I never knew that he was proposing. I heard him talking, but I thought he was doing his regular stage thing. And then he started getting mad at me from the stage because he had to get to the next song. When I got there, he was so nervous the ring was shaking in his hand...
...There's Internet chatter about a Sopranos movie. What do you think? I haven't heard anything, but they always said if they were going to do it, it was going to be a prequel because most of the characters are dead. It would do insane box office. I'd love to do a Sopranos sequel. Are you kiddin...
...vestiges of the Cultural Revolution were still evident: revolutionary slogans painted on walls and pockmarks on university buildings from bullets and howitzer shells shot by dueling Red Guards. Camouflaged, but just as evident, were the personal scars borne by intellectuals and officials whom I met at the time. I heard stories of beatings and humiliations, confiscations of personal possessions and loss of living quarters, and forced hard labor...
...Trade Barriers: Shots Heard Round the World...
...influential movers in France are now eager to put the relationship back on a friendlier footing. In a recent paper French think tank Institut Montaigne laid out an ambitious agenda for the two nations, arguing that a new impetus is needed if Europe's voice is to be heard in a world full of big new players, such as Brazil and India, and at a time when President Obama seems far more preoccupied with China and the rest of Asia than with America's traditional allies in Europe. Among other proposals, the think tank recommends that France share...