Word: ear
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...turns to words to replace musical notes. He unrelentingly assaults the ear with precise metaphors, dissecting every aspect of his dead sister: her body, her dress and her words. He floods every part of his life with pregnant description. The flow does not stop even when his father, in a post-accident moment of rage, sticks a gun in the Son's mouth. The only things immune to his touch are the names of the players themselves: the whole time it is only Son, Father, Mother and Daughter. Family members are the rocks upon which the Son's fragile shell...
...never learned to read music, so I would try and figure out the songs by ear," he says. "It didn't work so well. Often times, I would end up playing my own part...
...fiddler, Jostrom had not taken the typical course to learning his instrument. He would pick up most music by ear, listening to both records and fiddle players...
...child with a Grade 1 concussion does not lose consciousness but may experience a range of symptoms that include headache, mild dizziness, ringing in the ear, confusion and blurred vision. The symptoms typically resolve in less than 15 minutes, but the child should be removed from the contest, examined immediately and then re-examined at five-minute intervals. If the symptoms clear within a few minutes, the child can return to play...
...Adams' novels be stretched? Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which offers computer-based automatic translations of text in seven languages. There are plans to use that service to provide multiple-language versions of h2g2 within the next year...