Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stefan her understanding of how to get to the TR. But no matter, Sam will remember. In Wedded We, as opposed to Single I, no one needs remember every detail. Mental burdens shared, one of the many blessings of the life of conjoined souls. Touching Alfred's thin ear, she peacefully watches the day bloom in earnest over the San Bernadino Valley...
...only on LP rather than in the theater costs the listener a few visual delights, notably the pleasure of watching Jean Pace (Brown's wife) smile like the girls in Vogue wish they could and dance like the priestesses in Aida definitely should. But the LP blesses the ear with her Brown Baby and Afro Blue. It also offers Oscar and a Brazilian wizard named Sivuca (pianist, accordionist, guitarist, world's funkiest falsetto) singing and playing a small treasury of other inter-American gems...
Through it all, Crowley moves like a recording angel, catching every nuance, every diphthong of homosexual patter. But the script is marked by more than an appraiser's eye and an unforgetting ear. The author well knows the men Proust called "sons without a mother." He delineates the reliance on alcohol and drugs to pull a shade over the mind; the loveless encounters that begin with need and end with arrest; the deadly message of the mirror that announces the ebbing of the physical attractiveness that is the homosexual's main solace...
...essence of bel canto is making the vocally difficult sound delectable. Long, lung-stretching phrases, rococo trills, breathtaking leaps of voice slide into the air and ear with soft, summery ease and grace. The quintessential bel canto role is Norma, the most taxing female part in all opera. Giuditta Pasta, the first singer to try the part after Bellini created it in 1831, found it so difficult that the violins had to play out of tune deliberately to disguise her failures...
...shadings were enough to muddle a stenotypist's ear, and in fact did just that. Dr. Walter Heller's remark at one point that "consumer satiety rears its ugly head" was transcribed as "consumer satanity." Dr. Heller was subsequently asked to define this interesting new economic concept. "The tendency of the consumer to be perverse-he sometimes thwarts us by refusing to react to certain things in the way we want him to," Heller quickly replied. Still, Heller maintains, there is basically no such thing as consumer satiation...