Word: whisperer
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Evgraf, Pasha, Komarovsky (the old lecher), and Tonia (Zhivago's first wife) rush onto the stage, whisper or shout their say, commit their little deeds and consider their situations, and the clamber back into the wings. Some, like Zhivago, are tangled in the threads of introspection; others don't appear to think at all. Does Komarsky help Lara out of a sense of guilt for having violated her, out of a real love, or what: What sort of person is Tonia? Why did Pasha really leave home? Unfortunately, we can't tune in tomorrow...
...true lovers of Jane Austen are those who do not advertise their devotion, but are content to whisper 'Dear Jane' as they pause at the grave in the ancient aisle of Winchester Cathedral." This remark (from the Concise Cambridge History of English Literature) shows precisely the position Jane Austen holds in English literature, for would anyone whisper "Dear Alfred" at Tennyson's grave or "Dear Charles" at Dickens'-still less be urged to do so by an academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words...
Rubenstein charged that the petition asking for a new election, which was signed by 565 Seniors, garnered its support "under all kinds of pretenses, false and true, including a whisper campaign...
This One Is the Toni (Toni Carroll; M-G-M LP). Songstress Carroll, billed as a onetime Miss Missouri, belongs to the whisper-from-the-navel school. Her incendiary reading of such ballads as I'm in the Mood for Love and I Only Have Eyes for You will bump the pulse, the album guarantees, "of any red-blooded American man." Toni's signature song (Call Toni) sets the pitch: "I'm all yours and ready to do/ Anything you want me to/ Just dial TONI oh-five-six-eight-three...
...with a handle like that? God knows, my middle name, Sanford, is bad enough. But Harold Jenkins!" Then it turned out that hazel-eyed Harold twanged a neat country guitar and his voice could bounce from flat rock 'n' roll to a high-pitched sexy whisper. There was only one thing, Don decided-that name had to go. "I thought of Twitty. I tried Johnny Twitty, Freddie Twitty, but it just didn't work. Then we got to talking about towns in Arkansas, and I looked at a map, and there was this Conway, Ark. That...