Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successive home runs to left, right center and right field. "The big thing about Clemente," Giants' Pitcher Juan Marichal once said, "is that he can hit any pitch. I don't mean only strikes. He can hit a ball off his ankles or off his ear." Asked if he had found any effective way to pitch to Clemente, former Dodger Speedballer Sandy Koufax said, "Sure, roll the ball...
...independent reputation out of key with the team consciousness in the White House. As an international-minded free trader, Peterson also clashed with John Connally, who speaks for economic nationalism. And in the last analysis, it is Connally, the skilled infighter, who has the President's ear. Peterson was offered the post of European economic and security coordinator, but he turned it down, largely for personal reasons. One of his sons is in a home for the mentally retarded in California, and Peterson did not want to get too far away from him. Before he quits the Government, Peterson...
...characters' forward motion without upsetting the fluidity of the action. She has done fine things while pulling the Idiot from one trauma to another, lining up three-quarters of the cast to chart their reactions to the consumptive's incipient suicide while the General chews his ear off, and finally letting the consumptive show the General and the Prince his ass before the lights fade. Her lighting cues, for the most part well executed by lighting director Thomas Parry, keep audience attention drawn to the right play areas, and the breaks into song and dance are managed well both...
...April 1970 five-month-old Thomas Robison of Arroyo Grande was admitted to Sierra Vista Hospital in nearby San Luis Obispo, where Xrays showed that his skull was fractured from ear to ear. The boy's 17-year-old mother, who was living with an AWOL soldier, said he had fallen off a bed, and the child was returned to the mother three days later. Twice within the next month he required further hospital treatment for injuries that included whip welts on the back, puncture wounds in the neck, and burned fingertips; the last time he had strangulation marks...
RESPONSIBILITY for his failure can be traced in all too many directions. A small part of the problem is Truffaut's unfamiliarity with the English language, so that the scenes outside of France simply strike the ear wrong. And part of the problem is that Truffaut has never been at home in color. With the exception of Stolen Kisses, all his color films have been many cuts below the black and white...