Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wears a diamond stud in one ear, loves to pub-crawl with his hometown "yobbos" (rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked...
...writer; his One L, an account of his first year at Harvard Law School, received admiring attention when it appeared in 1977. In addition, Turow's legal training and experience as a prosecutor have honed some skills useful to lawyers and storytellers alike: an eye for significant details, an ear for how people talk and what they may actually mean when under pressure. Presumed Innocent has not stumbled into success. It is a clever, carefully prepared plea for popular attention...
...best America will listen with only half an ear, especially when summer ends and the din of the presidential campaign starts to grow. Reagan knows this, but half an ear or even less is better than most recent Presidents have been able to command in their waning days. Time will tell if events permit Reagan to become a pedagogue. He has other pet subjects for discourse, such as the War Powers Act, which gives modern Presidents so many fits, and the two- term limit in office, which saps a Chief Executive's power in his last years...
Unfortunately, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College follow this precedent and turn a deaf ear to student input in important matters. At Harvard junior faculty are granted tenure based on the recommendations first of their colleagues ad then of a board of outside experts before going to Bok and the Corporation for approval. Students have no real voice in this process, nor do they have a precise idea of how it works. Professors evidently believe that students do not have the capability to accurately judge scholarly merits and would be susceptible to turning the tenure review process...
...Jacket is not a realistic film -- it is horror-comic superrealism, from a God's-eye view -- but it should fully engage the ordinary movie grunt. The boot-camp sequence begins as high farce, with the D.I. taunting his recruits in arias of obscenity that tickle and singe the ear. Kubrick's majestic camera tracks across the barracks, it ascends obstacle courses, it glides past the soldiers, then abruptly cuts to close-ups, to study their pain head on. Their faces are fists clenched in rage and fear; they know that farce is about to replay itself as tragedy...