Word: squawk
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...cruises waiting for the squawk of the radio that would mean news, or tragedy, depending on your outlook. Dorchester, with its distinct line between the white and Black sections, is quiet. So too Brookline, and downtown Boston, where workers busily sweep up a day's worth of bakery wrappings from the Quincy Market plaza. In fact, it looks like it might be a bad night, real quiet...
...gray, drizzly dawn breaks a little ominously. The Boston Common, almost always busy with some activity, is strangely calm early Monday morning except for the muted chatter of the National Guard MPs and the demanding squawk of their walkie-talkies...
...Chance. The alarm sounds a deafening, 85-decibel squawk even before fire has actually broken out?smoke from a nearby overdone roast can set it off. Easy to install, the bowl-shaped sensors can be simply plugged into house current. Even better, some are powered by batteries; these generally last a year and chirp insistently when they are running down. Smoke sleuths can be used in conjunction with heat detectors (cost: $100 plus for a complete system). Heat detectors are slower to sound a smoke alarm and are used mainly in closed areas such as basements and garages, where...
...bears not the remotest resemblance to a prince. He is like a little boy throwing a nightlong temper tantrum. His twitchy gestures suggest those of a puppet on the strings of a drunken puppeteer. His voice is woefully devoid of resonance. He delivers the Shakespearean line like a squawk box in dire need of a lozenge. Add to this little humor and less thought, and Hamlet the Dane becomes Hamlet the Cipher...
...OTHER interesting telephone in this story is a squawk box in the office of B. Brooks Thomas, executive vice president at Harper & Row, which owns Basic Books. Three weeks ago Glikes and Thomas were in that office with the squawk box on so they could both be heard, explaining Basic's case against Doris to me. Both Glikes and Thomas were going on about how Doris's relationship with Basic and with Glikes had been unique, and Glikes was talking about how shocked he was at Doris's a postasy. And when I asked Glikes whether he had spoken...