Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fights at the San Marcos fiesta in Aguascalientes. From the start of his first fight he showed cool mastery, although his bull was a big, sly, unpredictable animal. But suddenly, as Velazquez was performing a high chest pass, the bull thrust his horns upwards, snagged Velazquez' left ear and tore it loose. Other matadors and handlers dashed into the ring, distracted the bull and dragged Velazquez away bleeding. But when doctors tried to patch the wound, Velazquez shook them off and went back into the ring, his ear dangling grotesquely. Not until he made a few more swift passes...
...John Beauvais '49 were to blue pencil every word, phrase, or paragraph which does not contribute to whatever single intention provoked "Gino's Little Brother," he might have considerably intensified his effect. As it is, he keeps dragging diversions before the eye and ear in an amusing but disturbing...
...able to witness such wonders as the growth of a plant from seed to blossom in a matter of minutes. They have seen the human heart in action, been whisked through the ages of history. To make one film on hearing, the E.B.F. staff worked 18 months, used the ears of three corpses to show the ear's inner workings. Each script gets a thorough examination by experts, but it is primarily up to producer and photographer to present the facts with imagination...
...life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit badges to be won for his parents' sake, is awed by such gestures. When Josh meets Miri, he is similarly drawn to her as an exotic, only to find that...
...photography is done in the best Italian neo-realism style, with many close-ups, little camera movement, and with nearly every scene, from subways to bars, shot on location. Script-writer Chayefsky's ear for conspicuously natural speech is better than ever...