Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public roles at a time when most serious fiction was burrowing ever deeper down the rabbit hole of self. Critics complained, irrelevantly, that Snow was not Proust and, accurately, that his prose was often pedestrian and awkward. While he never pretended to be an elegant stylist. Snow had an ear for the telling phrase; two of the titles he corned for the "Strangers and Brothers" series, The New Men and Corridors of Power, quickly became common currency...
During the election campaigns, Mrs. Gandhi was repeatedly asked whether she planned to give Sanjay a government post. "No, why should I?" she would answer. Sanjay had no need of office to gain his mother's ear at the breakfast-table sessions with advisers, where many of her key policies were argued out. Presumably, he played a part in her tough decisions to raise prices on petroleum, fertilizer and rail tickets, and to cut taxes as a way of reducing inflation (currently 20% a year) and stimulating growth...
...athletes could compete in the Olympics and a small nation like Iran would win as many medals as the U.S.S.R. Humiliated, the Russians would pull out of Afghanistan believing that all Third World nations were just as strong," I stated, pausing only to shift my body so my ear lobes would turn out just right...
...Soviet emigrant to the U.S., has a haunting recollection of his old life in Moscow. "It is amazing how cruelty to animals was so accepted," he says. "Boys, totally unprovoked, would kick dogs until they were half dead. You would see cats and dogs limping around with an ear cut off or stab wounds in the side...
Ontario's Niagara-on-the-Lake Shaw Festival is opening with an international flourish, offering not only Shaw but also Chekhov and French Farceur Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear. Herewith, an account of the first...