Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper's makeup, hired irreverent Pulitzer-prizewinning Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant away from the Denver Post, added a progressive, young editorial-page editor and dropped a few antediluvian columnists, and proffered readers a daily front-page "Q and A" column (one surprise subject: Post Publisher Katharine Graham) and "The Ear," a brassy capital gossip column...
...clockmaker, amid all the stopped clocks of his shop, places his parchment ear against an out-of-tune grandfather's clock; a barber, with a dry brush, lathers the cheekbones of an actor learning his role, studying the script with hollow sockets: a girl with a laughing skull milks the carcass of a heifer...
...which is a disappointment too, all 50's Jack in the Boxes gone shabby--has that big sign H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D up in the hills, and a couple of monuments you've seen in the movies. But Nashville's myth was spread by ear, so that without the radio on as you cruise in you could be anywhere, except for an eerie deja-vu that you finally figure out seeped in from the cover of Dylan's Nashville Skyline: a flimsy, half-naked cluster of skyscrapers, vaguely embarrassed in their lack of substance...
...intellectual feints, The Fight only adds up to Norman Mailer honorably going about the business of making his living. Covering a sport that seems to hold less and less interest for Americans calls for all his savvy. But even Mailer cannot make a silk purse out of a cauliflower ear...
...Corners touchingly and devotedly serve the script that Wilder said was "an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life." The characters all talk pretty much the same way, but Wilder could not have fashioned their colloquial speech without a keen ear and much hard work...