Word: overhearer
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...City customers a day dine on Swedish food in IKEA's strategically located restaurant, just off the showroom floor. Most-asked-for dish: Swedish meatballs. Says Micha Baur, the West German who is the store's manager: "Very often people make their buying decisions in our restaurant. You can overhear them. 'Should we buy this table or that table? What do you think, honey?' " After making the choice, shoppers proceed to the self- service warehouse, where they find the goods on neat rows of shelves...
...fair, any period of adjustment is rough on the nerves. It gets all the more complicated when you find yourself running short on patience and long on temper -- a consequence of having age. And if you don't cut yourself some slack somewhere in this stretch, you may overhear a relative phoning the guys in the white jackets. Maestro, eight bars of some "for instance" music, please...
...Auburn Sts.) the favorite place for late might (open until 2 a.m.) lovers of cheese steak and pinball. And the trappes (Bostonese for milkshake) are good and thick. Theu, of course, there's the Mug and Muffin (1382 Mass. Ave), a good place to watch the locals and overhear pretentious conversations taking place in a crowd of cigarette smoke. The muffins aren't bad and the coffee is free flowing...
...real" parents on weekends--leaves the boy torn almost to the point of schizophrenia between two opposing modes of existence. The irony, of course, is that by asking him to make unfair choices, the adults force poor PS to accept far more responsibility than they would by letting him overhear them...
...side, what with his peculiar way of making enemies an internal issue. Amin has been known to show a light heart, however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were now discovered because someone happened to overhear Lady of Spain. Still, the mind is cheered by the image of Amin on his accordion, Nero on his lyre, Hitler whistling away. Where a band like this would play offers problems, but its repertoire would surely include I've Gotta...