Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several thousand bodies directly in front of the stage roared in approval, I thought of Dallas and the kind of flexibility it takes to embrace first Jaroy Weber and then Gregg Allman. It was enough to make me shout into the ear of a photographer friend, "Politics makes strange bedfellows, I know, but how many different people can this man pack together beneath his wingspan...
...Star led with stories on tax abuses and the new FBI crime statistics. One of the Star's most recent innovations is a column called "Gobbledygook," which uncovers choice items of bureaucratic doubletalk. The paper last month began sending gold-colored metal pins in the shape of an ear to prominent Washingtonians who are tattled about in its new gossip column "The Ear," which is scheduled to be syndicated nationally in February. Says Editor James Bellows: "We've got momentum going and everything is looking good...
...Australia was behind the deposed Prime Minister. In the trading pits of the stock exchanges, word of Whitlam's ouster was greeted with ear-splitting cheers and a 17-point jump in the Sydney Stock Exchange's index of shares, bringing it to a high for the year. In Brisbane, a woman telephoned a radio station to stress that "for all those in the streets, there are many more in their homes quietly celebrating Whitlam's departure...
This goes part of the way to solving the Shylock problem, though nothing can gloss over the fact that Shakespeare has given Shylock the motivations, actions and retribution that properly belong the stock stage Jew, but has written speeches that (at least to the modern ear) make him something better. And the production seriously stumbles at a critical point in the interpretation of Shylock's position in the play's scheme of redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision...
From there on out, the propaganda intensified, as the card-carrying faithful created an oversize portrait of Chairman Mao, a blockbuster mural of Chinese industrial development and pictorial tributes to China's performing arts, medical services (including a flash-card diagram showing acupuncture of an ear) and table tennis, the nation's No. 1 sport. After the mass-performance art, the games could have seemed anticlimactic. But since China is making a concerted bid to participate in next summer's Olympics in Montreal, the National Games became unofficial Olympic trials. At least three world marks for pistol...