Word: ear
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...song, just 'bout." Pop as in a pop-music explosion. Phillips didn't sing or play an instrument, he didn't always produce the music that came out of his studio, and in 1955 he shortsightedly sold Presley's contract to RCA for $35,000. But his ear was infallible. He had the aural version of precognition. He retired a rich man--not because of Sun but because he was an early shareholder in another midcentury Memphis business, Holiday Inn. --By Richard Corliss...
Shortly before he left, a family friend left a pair of ear plugs on his front porch as a going-away gift. He says he may find them necessary over the course of the year...
...protesters on the streets on July 1, when about 500,000 actually turned out. How, they have asked, could a government be so out of touch with popular sentiment?and how could they have so badly botched the selling of Article 23? Perhaps in search of a sympathetic ear, Tung requested a meeting with Jiang Zemin, the man responsible for Tung's appointment...
...confident hands-on image that Putin projects to the world - and which Russia's tightly controlled electronic media transmit daily to its citizens - the President is a tentative leader who almost four years after taking office has still not created his own team. Instead, two factions compete for his ear. The Petersburg group - which Pavlovsky describes as consisting of "bureaucratic populists" - is viewed as ideologically hostile to the big private corporations that control much of Russia's natural resources. Some members of the group, Pavlovsky adds, probably also want a cut of the businesses themselves. The other faction is known...
...Raina appears as an Angel and the Song of Solomon is sung in Craig's ear...