Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prison is an intimidating experience at first for many "plappers," but most quickly get over their fears. "It's certainly not frightening to work with people who, at this point in their lives anyway, have no reason to hurt me and who want our help and a sympathetic ear," says Kennedy...
Unless, of course, Glynn is telling the gag as a shaggy-building story. He floods the eye and ear with bizarre images and improvised prose. It is as if the plumbing in a conventional novel had burst, swirling the styles of Gunter Grass, Nathanael West, William Burroughs, Stanley Elkin, John Irving and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (without the enchantment of a safe distance and exotic folklore...
...diminishes both intention and accomplishment. For what Akira Kurosawa has done is to reimagine Lear in terms of his own philosophy, which blends strains of Western existentialism with a sort of elegiac Buddhism, and the imperatives of the movies. If Shakespeare's poetry enters the mind through the ear, Kurosawa's enters it through the eye. But the imagery is of comparable quality, at once awesome in its power, delicate in its irony and, finally, for all the violence of the events it recounts, eerily serene in the sureness with which it achieves its effects. At 75, with such films...
Elizabeth on 37th opened in May 1981. "The first two years about killed us," the chef recalls. Understaffed, they had to stay up all night cooking. Once the electricity went off, and Elizabeth had to "cook by ear" on her six burners. Twice, after she had cooked 70 or 80 dinners, Michael stuck his head into the kitchen and announced "25 more," and Elizabeth broke down and cried. It is not like that anymore...
...optional--but ear muffs are a must...