Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meany's room, the argument continued. It went, according to the ear-witnesses, something like this...
Encouraged by the continuing prospect of real movies made for the wall-to-wall screen and shown at ear-to-ear prices, dozens of key theaters are currently converting to the system-at a cost that ranges from $175,000 to $500,000 a theater. By year's end, 60 of them will be open in the U.S. and some 40 more in other countries...
...doesn't do to go against public opinion," an old friend whispers in Rade's ear, warning him that his fellow office workers are about to turn on him. His landlady talks in cipher to his fellow lodger, using "big, strong, black and forceful words, always heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects...
...wheeled a spare tire down the main street of Johannesburg under the nose of the cops. On another occasion, when he wanted to retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in the traditional blue jumper and shorts, stuck huge earrings through his ear lobes, grabbed a broom and walked through the police cordon outside his office. Once inside, he tucked the papers under his shirt and calmly walked...
...Nick Adams stories, which are here assembled in a charming, rambling, romantically melancholy tale of a boy attempting to get away from mother and become a man. Paul Newman, in a minor role, adds several impressive new wrinkles to Hollywood's standard portrait of a cauliflower ear...