A whispering gallery is usually a circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery. Such galleries can also be set up using two parabolic dishes. Sometimes the phenomenon is detected in caves.
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“I remember her on the screen, huge as a colossus doll, mincing and whispering and simply hoping her way into total vulnerability.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
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