Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian village of Seminara. After Luppino's seizure more than a month ago, his ft earlobe had been cut off and sent to his father with a note saying, "Unless you pay us 500 million lire, you'll get me head of your son, not just his ear...
This grisly modus operandi was used in the 1973 abduction of the grandson of Oil Billionaire J Paul Getty who was persuaded to pay $2.8 million in ransom after kidnapers dispatched the boy's right ear to a Rome newspaper. In the Getty and Pianelli cases, as in most Italian kidnappings, the criminals have not been simply political fanatics out to punish the rich, but professional hoods -often Mafia members-seeking high profits...
...hell of a decision. Furious, Ronnie exiled the stubborn boy of 16 to the University of Bern. There David's gift for mimicry and his cassette-recorder ear made him a quick study of foreign tongues. Within a year he had delved into German letters and discovered new modes of expression and thought. "You might say," he claims, "that I rather belatedly developed a second soul...
...past did not matter Wednesday, though--what did matter was that the Crimson put together one of its finest games in recent memory to put away the Cardinals. Senior captain Fred "Fredo" Herold, who has capably tended Harvard's nets for the last two years, was grinning ear-to-ear after the contest...
This conclusion is both somber and ludicrous - and no one now writing can juggle these clashing qualities more adroitly than Roth. Also on display are other Roth virtues: an uncanny sense of pacing and an ear for dialogue that approaches perfect pitch. Roth can wring acid comedy from the dishrag of kitchen quarrels. Kepesh recalls a tandem tantrum he had with his wife: " 'I don't believe I am having this discussion,' she says. 'Life isn't toast!' she finally screams. 'It is!' I hear myself maintaining. 'When you sit down...