Word: overhears
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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MADRID—Strolling around Spain, it is not uncommon to overhear jokes like these...
...Miriam Goldberg sips coffee and discusses her opposition to Harvard expansion, other patrons of Broadway Espresso overhear her and spontaneously voice their agreement...
...Outside the ballroom there are a panoply of TV crews. I wander around and see Robert Wuhl, the star of HBO's "Arli$$," being interviewed by one of the crews. Elsewhere I overhear young actressy types being urged by boyfriends and/or publicists to thrust themselves before the cameras. To my surprise I spot the prince of Belgium now working with his TV producer pal as an interviewer. "I thought he was the prince of Belgium," I ask Steve Taylor. "Yuh, he is. He just likes interviewing people too." Since Britain's current generation of royals includes media-hounds such...
...Sunday after our national day of thanks, my Delta Shuttle taxis around LaGuardia Airport like a cat without a home. I can't help but overhear the conversation that a few college girls are having behind me. There is endless chatter about who had sex with the totally plastered 6'5" ubermensch last weekend. The utter joys of one of the busiest travel days in the United States...
...working-class white men in warmup jackets and Nikes. A few conventiongoers are accompanied by wives or girlfriends, but there are no virtually no females participating in the event, and I hear of only one woman in attendance who actually plays the instrument. But it's pleasantly jarring to overhear a couple of old guys at the bar discussing the advantages of analog versus digital reverb, and I even hear a pedal steel joke: Why should you always carry your tone bar with you? Because if you were killed in an accident and they only found fingerpicks on you, they...