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...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...
...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...
...live in the crossfire of scathing certainties. In my right ear I hear the concussive blasts of Limbaugh. With my left eye I read the New York Times, the curia and house organ of America's new established church--the church of correctness and diversity, with all its rigid doctrines now embedded in the rules of corporations, of government, of universities...
...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...
Nonetheless, the exhibit offers an explanation of van Gogh's breakdown after working with Gauguin in Arles for two months. Van Gogh, after a heated argument, mutilated his ear. Yet only one image of the artist without his ear appears in the exhibit - an important curatorial decision. Instead of focusing on van Gogh as 'the crazy artist who cut his ear off,' the exhibit moves on to the tragedy of what this fit implied for van Gogh - as the exhibit undersores, van Gogh is more than a mad genius...