During an event at the Southampton, N.Y., estate of David H. Koch, the billionaire industrialist and political activist, a protester's plane flew overheard with a sign that read "Romney has a Koch problem".
I overheard with some alarm a conversation about how the Wilderness Adventurer ran aground and partly sank in Glacier Bay three years ago, forcing the evacuation of crew and passengers.
Mr. Dobbins is overheard negotiating with the Austrian Consul General about publicizing Austria.
Eaves's book (his third novel) only loosely qualified as a novel; it was a plotless collection of 250 crafted and distilled miniatures of overheard voices with interweaving themes.
An overheard encounter with Radiohead's Colin Greenwood at the afterparty for Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise: "Are you a musician?" "I play a bit in the garage with my brother".
In the latest twist, this week, in a newly leaked recording, Brazil's brand-new transparency minister, Fabiano Silveira — in other words, its anti-corruption czar — can be overheard discussing with other politicians ways to avoid prosecution for Car Wash.
His Judge Curran is a gambling man, heavily in debt; shortly before her death, Patricia is overheard arguing with him about his plans to offset their house against his losses.
But her convictions for espionage in 1949 and for conspiracy (with Mr. Gubitchev) in 1950 were overturned — in one case because federal agents overheard conversations with her lawyer, and in the other because she was arrested on probable cause but without a warrant.
In one such conversation last summer, another defendant, Yassir al-Sirri, an Egyptian based in London, was overheard talking with Mr. Sattar about the drafting of a letter of introduction to serve as a cover story for two men, for possible use in Afghanistan, the official said.
STANDING outside an art gallery off the Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau last Tuesday, the director Sofia Coppola was overheard whispering with friends about an exhibition of David Lynch photographs that showed women on their knees, or reclining, or revealing themselves to the camera, wearing nothing but Christian Louboutin shoes.
In an overheard conversation with the Grammy Award-winning producer-songwriter Bryan-Michael Cox, he referred to Stewart as "the Shakir guy".
