Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corner in Rockefeller Plaza. Year after year, people come back to see the Nativity as portrayed by Renaissance masters-25 color photographs of delicate accuracy, blown up to the size of the originals. Carols from the 15th to the 18th century provide background music, and visitors can also listen to a taped commentary on Renaissance...
Children Who Read. For all his seeming absorption with TV, Capote is no fan. As a boy, he used to feign illness so he could stay home from school and listen to radio soap opera. Television does not have that kind of clutch on him. He doesn't even have a set in his Manhattan co-op apartment or his mountain lodge in Switzerland. There is one in his beach house on Long Island, but the area is so remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm...
...death penalty, and they could hardly have picked a more promising time or place for their plea. Their lawyers could argue with considerable authority that Western society has come to look upon execution as a cruel and unusual form of punishment. And the California court could be expected to listen sympathetically; it has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal in the nation...
...Listen, when I've got to pay that much for a lousy excise on a cycle, I figure I've already bought an explanation of why it's so high...
...Listen, would you please check and make sure I didn't send you the tax? I couldn't find the cancelled check, but I was certain I'd sent it." (Christ. Evidently the amount of the excise was added to your bill every time they sent you a notice...