Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pawnshops, surplus-clothing stores and aging apartment hotels, were uncommonly empty. In the past eight weeks, seven middle-aged men, most of them down-and-outers, had been found in doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within the l-sq.-mi. Skid Row area, their throats slit deeply from ear to ear-and the killer had always struck on Wednesdays or weekends. Los Angeles police call him the Slasher; some vagrants of the neighborhood have dubbed him the Head Chopper...
...need. Assignment America should be read as it is, a pleasant, meandering, and sometimes insightful tour among some interesting people of America. The reporters have a playwright's ear for dialogues and conversations. The writing is superb, with enough periodic sentences to be almost arty, but enough like a newspaper to be largely anonymous...
...Gerald Ford would have to enter his office from the corridors or the secretary's office or the porch, all doorways monitored and barred except by previous arrangement. It was a device to discourage empire builders or any staff man who felt he could occupy the presidential ear...
...landed in a split. Son John, 14, was more conservative, preferring to give a Bronx cheer to a photographer. In Gstaad, Novice Nicholson was struggling with the subtleties of wedeling. "He loves zooming downhill," sighed Temporary Instructor Polanski. "His style is like a guy who scratches his left ear with his right hand...
...address his audience, like Anna Magnani as she reaches the door to her apartment and bids us all good night. In Amarcord Fellini plays around further with this device; along with the exquisite diction of the Italian actors and the rhythm and beauty and strangeness (to the English ear) of what they are saying, this lends a theatrical, almost ritualistic quality to the film. These characters, though, are faintly ridiculous. By stepping out of the community to address us, they forfeit the strength in numbers that protects everyone else and show themselves to be somehow anti-social. One of these...