Word: whispers
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...them," he says. "But many of the timber graders were also gangsters. You would have to play the same song several times a night, otherwise a gangster would say, 'Why don't you give me some face?' and show you the bulge under his shirt. My record for Careless Whisper is 17 times...
...Slipping between first and third person ("This is a story that can only be told in a whisper," Jones' narrator begins), this finely calibrated novel gives voice to a girl's tentative coming of age. But just as powerfully, it addresses the dilemma of inhabiting, spiritually as well as spatially, the vast continent of Australia. The daughter of Shakespeare-obsessed Stella, and named after Hermione's abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life...
...Virginia Tech, Cho sometimes referred to himself as Question Mark and spoke in a whisper, if at all; one of his suite mates told CNN last night that "he was just like a shadow." Mostly what he did every day was this: sit in the spare common area of the six-man suite in Harper Hall and type on his laptop. But he didn't spend endless hours on Facebook or wired into his iPod. He also never talked about his family. He didn't seem to have friends, and he rarely spoke, even to his roommate. He ventured...
...Virginia Tech, Cho's mental state seems to have steadily deteriorated beginning in 2005, if not earlier. He sometimes referred to himself as Question Mark and spoke in a whisper, if at all. One of his suite mates told CNN that "he was just like a shadow." A suite mate told TIME that Cho never talked about his family, didn't seem to have friends, and rarely spoke, even to his roommate. He ventured out to attend class, to eat and, since February, to work out at the gym for the first time...
...Miss Witherspoon” is not one of Durang’s best plays. Its whisper-thin plot barely covers what is essentially an exposition of the playwright’s personal theology. Miss Witherspoon (Paula Plum) commits suicide, and on her way through the “bardo” (a holding room for unfulfilled spirits that contains a curious mix of Eastern, Christian, and New Age religious ideas), learns to appreciate life on earth, finally making peace with the universe...