Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, five crewmates, traveling in a tiny, nuclear-powered submarine, chart a hazardous course through man's circulatory system. After several unexpected stopovers in the lung and inner ear, the microscopic crew reaches its disembarkation point: the human brain. THE WRONG BOX. Somewhere hidden among the plot machinations of this Victorian spoof is a wrong box, upon which most of the action hinges. The box is a coffin-unoccupied-although Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Mills and Ralph Richardson are more than anxious to find a suitable corpse to fill...
After all, no string player invests roughly 20 years and $25,000 for training to sit in the hundred-headed obscurity of a symphony orchestra. In his heart, if not in the ear of his audience, he is a full-fledged virtuoso who, says Los Angeles Symphony Conductor Zubin Mehta, "joins a symphony only as a last resort, and then is frustrated." On the campus, however, he can assume the stature of a soloist, play largely what he wants (musicians' tastes rarely agree with those of a symphony audience) the way he wants to (instead of having interpretations dictated...
These pieces show Updike at his best: his style is exquisitely crafted, his ear is sound, his eye is sharp, and the words dance like water over bright pebbles. If some of the stories fail, it is because they are echoes rather than original noises. The effect is rather like listening to a whole evening of madrigals...
...will, he admits, keep an eye on the Times too. "It discovered the feature story recently. It discovered pictures, it discovered nightclubs, it discovered amusements. That's our stuff. The Journal-American in its better days had an ear for what was going on, being talked about in this town...
...There are celebrated singers who cannot hold a note and artists who cannot grasp the essentials of form and color. Then there is Allen Drury, who happens to be a bestselling novelist without much talent for writing. But Drury has a special gift-a reportorial eye and ear for detail and atmosphere, an expertise about political power, and a seasoned newsman's disdain for cant...