Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also proved to be an endless source of fascination for Western travelers, who are invariably, and rightly, en chanted by the rugged beauty of its mountains and the exquisite manners of its people. For one of Japan's ear liest Western advocates, Lafcadio Hearn, the main thing was "the viewless pressure of numberless past generations" at work in the country. These days the focus is on the future generations of Japan. No one knows what pressures they will feel, but one thing is cer tain: Japan will, as Sato says, carry weight...
...these towns are now "defluoridating" down to the optimum 1 p.p.m.) Oldtimers there are found to have harder bones, with more fluorides in them, than their kin in non-fluoridated areas. At East Carolina University, Dr. Hal J. Daniel III has studied the stapes bones (in the middle ear, and essential to hearing) of residents in high-and low-fluoride areas. He finds evidence of much more deafness from stapes disease in low-fluoride areas...
...neurasthenic Philippe de Sisi. Griffith wears his patented oblique stare of incipient insanity as the feckless, fatuous Louis. Sutherland is both immensely vital and painstakingly subtle. His lumbering lout is a Gallic version of Steinbeck's Lennie. Yet with a tiny moue he transforms the sow's-ear peasant into a silken, purse-lipped aristocrat. Alternately bumbling and mincing, Sutherland irreverently manages to impale both egalite and elegance...
...give them away. I don't think it's my professional duty to break up marriages." Occasionally he muffs the point of an anecdote, or scrambles a story's details. No matter. As Critic John Mason Brown once put it: "Lyons' ear may be defective, but his heart never misses a beat...
...MacEachern, who was uninjured, said the persons shouted "Fuck you and fuzzy too" out their ear window before firing the blast and driving off. "Fuzzy" is the name of a pig which MacEachern convinced the police department to adopt as a mascot last December...