Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...height of the partying, I look up to see someone looking down on the action from a second-floor window. The person does not look happy. A woman in the crowd notices the observer too, and waves, shouting a cheery hello. Instantly, the face disappears from the window. The woman below shrugs her shoulders and returns to the fray...
...cassettes ($9.95 each) appeal to people who either dislike the sound of their voice on tape or are too shy to face a microphone. The company, Communico, plans to add a new series of messages with the voice-alikes of Columbo, Edith and Archie Bunker and Jimmy Carter. Hello...
...aerospace plants across the country, the mood was no less sulfurous. "A great surprise and deep shock," said Bastian ("Buz") Hello, B-1 division manager of Rockwell International, prime contractor for the program. The champagne bottles that had been chilled in anticipation of a celebration remained corked. The gates that were about to swing open to thousands of new employees stayed closed. Many of the 40,000 executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots...
Still, there are ritual subtleties. Business relationships, for example, can be complicated. At first phone contact, a person may be "Mr." or "Mzzz"-slurred slightly so as not to be entirely the feminist "Ms." Then both names-"Hello, Paul Anderson?"-may be used for a couple of calls. Whereupon, first names seem permissible. Some companies take ostentatious care to have everyone use first names-though secretaries often remain "Ellen" while the boss is "Mr. Jackson." The jaunty practice of using initials is often helpful: everyone becomes E.C., J.B., T.L., and so on. Clare, a young woman who wants to make...
...Hello from the sewers... hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of N.Y.C., and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood that has settled into the cracks...