Word: overhear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guard against harassment by not tolerating it. Give your daughter the strength to say no, loudly--as LaShonda Davis did. And if you have a son who is struggling to understand what is acceptable behavior toward girls, Nan Stein says, run the Mom Test on him. "If you overhear your son talking about girls in a trashy way, remind him, 'That's me you're talking about.' If he thinks it's hilarious to snap a girl's bra, ask him if he would have done it with his mother in the room...
...Slide, without transition, into singing softly or humming, as if the soliloquy were simply the spoken part of a musical performance, like an opera. In this way, you give the performance an obscurely higher purpose, as if it were a rehearsal that the bystander was fortunate to overhear...
...lunch time everyone crowds into the few closely spaced picnic tables, forcing neighbors to overhear each other's lunch time conversation. Inevitably, the table next door is populated by the Lewis family from Minneapolis. Three kids, aged 9, 13 and 15, sit across from mom, a secretary, and dad, a financial analyst. The two older kids have braces. Their father sports a pot belly and a cell phone...
...proved a mixed blessing. The revamped SNL that premiered in September with six new cast members is significantly better than it was last year, and the mood among staff members has brightened. As one writer puts it, "You don't have to walk down the street anymore and overhear people talking about how horrible the show is." But there is an unfortunate flip side to that truth: people don't seem to be talking about Saturday Night Live very much at all. Animosity has turned to apathy. The show's audience has been shrinking steadily for years--ratings dropped from...
...after his incarceration, Simpson's next-cell neighbor was Erik Menendez, the younger of the Beverly Hills brothers who murdered their parents. To ensure that Simpson and Menendez would not overhear each other's telephone conversations, Block ordered Menendez moved to another part of 7000. (Brother Lyle is in a different, equally high-security block of the jail.) That left Simpson alone in an isolated row, or module, of seven cells...