Word: whisperer
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...says a European businessman, "all over Moscow, for the first time, people are beginning to whisper in the shops, to ask what exactly is going on." Some Westerners attending the Olympic Games heard plaintive and angry words about Afghanistan, usually from people who brought up the subject themselves. Reported one such observer...
...arena for some of the fiercest and most feline competition in the U.S. Rarely has the competition been more savage than today, when top models can, and do, switch agencies almost as often as they change costumes, often at the drop of a harsh word or a seductive whisper...
Goodbye to all that, at least for the moment. For the moment New York may still be going broke, but nobody is saying so above a whisper, and the desperate, adamant I LOVE NEW YORK of three years back sounds suddenly sincere, almost giddy. In the four years since the Democrats sighed amen to Jimmy Carter, New York has reduced its debt (considerably), improved its cultural life (remarkably), raised its housing costs (out-of-sightedly), increased its industry (selectively), supported a new mayor (mostly), cleaned up after itself (doggedly) and become a happier place to live (generally). There are naysayers...
...final round of the trials set to begin next week, Courageous has won only six races and lost 19, leaving her a distant second to Freedom (31-2) and only marginally better than Clipper (7-24). In Newport, R.I., site of the 129-year-old competition, a cruel whisper is making the rounds: "Ted is dead...
Freshman Week will pass by and you'll meet some people you'll never meet again but will nod at or whisper "hi" to as you walk down Linden St. You'll probably do something stupid--like ask somebody where a building is while you're standing in front of it--but it will all seem wondrously ordered. At opening ceremonies, President Bok will rise from his Harvard chair and give his welcome-to-Harvard speech in a voice that sounds like Zeus; he'll talk about the challenges you face but his message will be upbeat. President Horner will...