Word: whisperer
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...body by a public highway with a stake driven through the heart, to keep the spirit from wandering. It is no longer a crime in the U.S., but assisting in one is illegal in more than 20 states. No one knows how often doctors write the prescription and whisper the recipe for a deadly overdose; but one informal survey of internists last year found that one in five say they have helped cause the death of a patient. Poll after poll shows that as many as half of Americans favor doctors doing...
...incredibly beautiful, idiosyncratic sort of space with very peculiar acoustics," Nash said. "It is one of the few theaters in the world in which you can stand with your back to the wall and whisper and still be audible...
...million worth of marketing won't bring the movie, or the creatures, to life. That is the responsibility of the swamis of special effects -- the puppeteers, modelmakers and computer mavens -- working closely with enthusiastic experts. Phil Tippett, an animator and longtime dinosaur buff, would whisper admonitions after nearly every take: "The head would never move like that," or "The claw wouldn't extend that far." He was the chief enforcer of Spielberg's dictum: that the dinosaurs be animals, not monsters...
Unlike politics, Shapiro says, covering baseball "teaches you the greatest gift for a writer or reporter: humility." While on his spring-training rounds, he found himself at a St. Petersburg, Florida, game, seated with 20 scouts. "I could hear them murmur about things I didn't see and whisper things I didn't understand." Shapiro believes that politicians would benefit from a similar immersion in humility: "It might be a wonderfully leveling experience for the egos of political leaders if for one campaign season they, like ballplayers, allowed reporters to interview them while they were half- undressed...
...THEATRE production of Ibsen's classic play (PBS, March 28) is possibly the first to make it seem like a blessed relief. Fiona Shaw's self-absorbed, unsympathetic portrayal makes Hedda ditso from the start: darting, distracted gestures, nervous facial tics and a voice that drops to an inaudible whisper about every third line. Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) is more engaging as the dissolute scholar who once loved her, but Deborah Warner's dark, eccentric production defeats...