Word: whisperer
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...Dustin Hoffman were filming a remake of The Graduate, the well-meaning family friend who pulled him aside to utter one word worth a million dollars would not say "Plastics." Today he would whisper "Aseptics." That is the name for a kind of packaging technique, a sort of second cousin to the retort pouch used by campers. Aseptics may change American packaging in the '80s the way plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming...
Harvard wages a "sophisticated, antiunion" battle with "secret promises, rumors, and whisper campaigns," union organizer Kristine Rondeau told the assembled workers...
...show until 8 a.m. that day, and having a 15-page paper due the next. I wasn't allowed to know who my examiners were until I arrived at the Hist and Lit office, hair still drying, coat slightly rumpled. Then it was confided to me in a stage whisper that I had drawn "The Inquisitor" (not his real name), one of the most well-read professors, and "The Executioner" (should be her real name), one of the most despised cold-fish history grad students. I had four minutes to compose myself. I considered swallowing a bottle of pills...
...beneath his quarterly projections set a pace that the singers cannot match. Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece. This Mikado is too fitful, too ambitious, perhaps-Dare we even whisper it, risking the rage of Savoyards everywhere?-a little too respectful. Crazy? More like not crazy enough...
...onto the wearer as the party heated up. The hat responded to the brain's temperature. A hat can be revealing, intimate. It can also be dangerous: no other article of clothing has the potential to make a man look so ridiculous. There is the terror of the whisper: Why does he wear that silly little...