Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctor's help and still faked their way to 4-F or 1-Y status.* Some have raised their blood pressure to an unacceptable level by popping amphetamines before reporting for medical examinations. Others have convinced physicians that they suffer from Meniere's syndrome, an inner ear disease that causes severe dizziness and nausea...
...softly lit stage, looking rather like harlequins in leotards. When they reach the footlights, the mood is suddenly jolted by a more familiar noise: the harsh twang of amplified guitars and the racketing thump of a rock beat. What follows this seemingly incongruous prelude is a swirling, eye-and ear-catching panoply of ballet maneuvers, from chastely classic lifts to Broadway shuffles, set to an eclectic score (by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge) that blends the modish and the modal. The climax is a joyous, foot-stamping, yet thoroughly unblasphemous rock version of the Ite, missa est chant that ends...
...Grams. The chance to bend Zumwalt's ear is no mere exercise in catharsis. Out of all the suggestions he has heard, he has so far circulated more than 800 as "greenstripers"-official green-bordered papers calling for reaction from selected commands. Of these, 65% have been turned into "Z-grams," which are direct orders from Zumwalt to effect changes in the service. Already famous throughout the fleet, they are aimed mainly at eliminating many seemingly minor, but unsettling, irritations of military life...
...does not structure our reading of an image, we have fallen into "the ideology of real life" ( Gai Savoir ), i.e., the implicit ideology in the bourgeois way of seeing. The first step for the revolutionary moviemaker is, as Juliet Berto says in Savoir, "to dissolve sounds and images." "The ear is the eye's politburo...
...Miami, Mrs. Ellen Roll won $1,500,000 in damages for a postoperative drug dose that left her permanently disabled. In addition, out-of-court settlements of more than $100,000 are fairly common. When Baja Marimba Band Guitarist Ervan Coleman died in Los Angeles following a supposedly routine ear operation, for example, his widow sued the anesthesiologists. They settled...