Word: ear
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...book, and it seems clear that he worried about whether his essays would stand up to print. In fact, the preface amounts mostly to an apology-in-advance for the rest of the book. He writes: "Words written for television are meant to be heard by the ear, not seen by the eye. People don't talk the way they write and they don't write the way they talk, so you may have to make some adjustments." And in a self-serving yet telling piece of false modesty, Rooney writes: I hope it's a good book. Publishers these...
...1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening. He also played a laconic, streetwise piano player in a handful of movies...
...there is one international musical figure who can truly be described as protean, it is Pierre Boulez. The former enfant terrible of French composers, who combines a brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that...
...embarrassed the White House or caused a major problem. That in itself is something of a surprise, because when he came to Washington from Wall Street, the Treasury Secretary seemed out of step with the supply-side tax cutters who had Reagan's ear. Regan, who initially warned against the dangers of huge deficits, is now an ardent defender of the tax cuts, which he helped persuade Congress to pass...
Exaggeration is an intoxication of words. Language temporarily loses its self-control; it veers around ther room making drunken passes at reality, biting its ear, whispering hyperhole, evem drooloing a little; YOUR SEARING GUT-WRENCING WORK IS THE LITERALLY EVENT OF THE DECADE . . .SPELLBINDING . . . MAGNIFICENT. . . A WASHDAY MIRACLE, WHITER THAN WHITE . . . A NEW STANDARD BY WHICH ALL THOROUGHBRED DRIVING MACHINES WILL BE MEASURED . . . I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU . . . I AM NOT A CROOK. I WILL BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET . . . WE'LL GET MARRIED AS SOON AS THE DIVORCE COMES THORUGH . . . such episodes leave a man feeling like...