Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those final tender moments on the steps when you would cover my ear with kisses and whisper sweetly...
...longer had privacy in my bathroom, man's last haven for quiet contemplation and omphaloskepsis. When it became mandatory to wear radio receiving sets so that people who had no idea where I was could call me, I could always unbolt the thing from my left ear. But when, in 1968, Congress passed the Numbskull Act requiring all male adults to have these receivers surgically implanted, brother, that did it! Big Brother, that...
After that, the clergyman and the social worker collected evidence that suggested an epidemic of momism in lower Manhattan. They found one mother who kept her son on the needle (and tied to her apron strings) by developing ear infections so that she needed him for a nurse whenever he made plans to hospitalize himself. Another woman bailed her boy out of jail while he was waiting to enter a hospital for addicts because she could not bear to have him wash his own underwear. Some mothers even encouraged their sons' habits by giving them...
Extrapolating the style, Jan and Dean (the "Father of Falsetto"), deliberately mix the sounds of surf and drag races into their records until the ear strains to grasp the lyrics. Explains Jan: "If the kids can hear the words, they'll turn their radio down. We want them to turn it up. It sort of relieves a kid's anxieties if he can drown out his parents...
Expanding Volume. Ads seduce the eye and ear everywhere in Asia. They blink in neon from signs that share the skyline with Bangkok's temple spires and from plump helium balloons in the skies over Taipei. Billboards in Rangoon hymn a product called "Monkey Brain Tonic." In Thailand, such popular TV shows as Alfred Hitchcock and The Deputy are often interrupted by commercials that run up to 15 minutes, and many of the country's 80 commercial radio stations carry eight-minute plugs-partly because time sells for as little as $1 a minute...