Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Demme's eye and ear for synthetic America make the film more than just the story of Melvin's life. Melvin is constantly overwhelmed by the cacaphony of horns blaring, toilets flushing and cars trying to start. He is always shouting to be heard, usually above something like a game-show audience. "Pick door number one! Number one!" That he never seems to be heard is sad; but though it may bother us that no one listens, Melvin doesn't seem to care. He perseveres...
...rest, especially the Federal Government, that great marble engine of the democracy. Nor are Washingtonians consoled by the fact that the candidates have been merely speaking for the country at large. Lord, how the nation hates Washington. Ask any Texan or Vermonter or whomever, and he will chew your ear off about that godless pile on the Potomac, that lobby-choked mausoleum, that fat, besotted . . . and you can throw in tasteless while you're at it. And dull...
...chairman of the Rules Committee putting controversial bills in his pocket and going off to a Virginia farm, the way Congressman Howard Smith used to do in the '40s and '50s - "I have an old sow that just loves to have her ear scratched. I've got to tend her now and then...
...correction to your October 15 story on the Harvard Bridge: the length of the bridge is not 364.4 Smoots, but 364.4 Smoots plus one ear. You can check the bridge for confirmation of this. William Lasser
...blood pressure 130/80. He had a 1967 prostate operation in which stones were removed. He has some hearing loss (attributed by his doctor, John Reynolds of Los Angeles, to age, and by Reagan to the noise of a revolver fired too close to his ear while he filmed a movie in the 1930s. He also has an arthritic right thumb, and suffers from hay fever. Reagan rides and uses an exercise wheel regularly. According to his doctor, the wheel has contributed to "his upper torso and chest muscles [being] really well preserved...