Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave of hope through hundreds of families who live in dread of the sudden news that their sons have volunteered to starve. When the name of the latest hunger volunteer, Liam McCloskey, 25, was announced last week, his parents protested to the I.R.A. that their son had a chronic ear infection that could cause early death. They dared to express their indignation...
Every one of those verbal messages was dinned into the consumer's memory with music that, most jingle composers agree, should catch the ear the first time it is heard, yet sound as if it has been around forever. The tunes sometimes become so popular that they are sold as records. The public bought a million copies of I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in 1971, while a slightly different version-Coca Cola's I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke-was saturating the air waves free. Some tunes are adapted...
...birthdays I have insisted on a Baskin-Robbins Mickey Mouse with blue eyes and an orange necktie cloaking layers of English Toffee, Pralines 'N Cream and Jamoca Almond Fudge. And they have to tear me away at midnight to keep me from devouring Mickey's last leftover ear...
...babble, they provided useful notes of what was going on. Dan Rather, trying to sum it all up, decided that the Crown, like Britain, "endured," a view forgivably more optimistic at this moment than his earlier one. On television the eye saw youth, beauty, ceremony and enthusiastic crowds. The ear had been told of troubles hi this one brief moment known as Camelot. Together the eye and ear may have got it about right...
...majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond time, beyond space. Somewhere off in a primeval woods everybody's inner ear hears a sneaky, undeserving little hitchhiker of a thrush trill the loveliest of songs...