Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary to their musical careers and in any case was protected by the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee, Jackson and Barnes went to court. But neither trial nor appeals judges were turned on by the musicians' plaint. Last week the Supreme Court also turned a deaf ear; so the school's long-hair ban stands. Four months ago, however, the court refused to review a Wisconsin decision that struck down a high school long-hair ban (TIME, June 15). The conclusion seems to be that the court does not care about hair, short or long...
...give candidates time to submit statements of their views to the House Committee and to the House at large, DiCara said, He added that it also "gave the Committee a chance to iron out the bugs in the election process. So far we've been playing this mostly by ear...
...patches of dialogue will discover a film that is curiously sensitive and affecting. Screenwriter James Bridges (The Appaloosa, The Forbin Project) makes his debut here as a director; his sympathetic approach to the principal characters and an admirable sense of directorial pace eventually overcome his stereotypes and his tin ear for conversation. Even so, Bridges could not remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne as Jay and Suzanne Wilcox, the childless couple. The film's strength lies in the delicate interaction...
...middle, in that no man's land between culture and counterculture. Suppose they had listened to that collision of psalm and catch tune for weeks, for months. Would the double echo have ceased to be two competing sounds? Would one new sound have fallen in the ear, with a new rhythm and harmony of its own, neither hymn nor May dance: a third...
...said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival...