Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheik, according to Rivas, slapped him across the face, inflicting what Rivas' lawyers call "an ear injury and trauma to the right cheek...
...statement also turns a deaf ear to the feelings of a large segment of the student body. That treatment, of course, comes as no surprise, yet in the wake of this week's large and peaceful demonstrations, some consideration and dialogue with those students would seem only fair. The uncommunicative and vaguely paranoid stance adopted by the University throughout this week shows that Harvard is both afraid of and unwilling to listen to its own no-longer-docile students...
...sure, there is still a strong competitive foreign policy voice seeking the President's ear in the more aggressive and imaginative Zbigniew Brzezinski, who operates just down the hall from Carter's office as head of the National Security Council. Yet the former Columbia professor, for all his purposefulness, respects Vance's role, and while the two certainly differ on just how tough the U.S. should be toward Russia (Vance advises the milder approach), Brzezinski has made no attempt to dominate Vance the way Kissinger humbled Secretary of State William Rogers...
...attention and that, in turn, Vance's instructions are carried out by the bureaucracy. He has traveled frequently with Vance, including missions to the Middle East, Europe and China. But his most valuable service may be to serve as the Secretary's sounding board and trusted ear when Vance puts his feet up at the end of a difficult day, sips a Scotch and unwinds...
Once again, no stand-outs in the cast: everyone shines so brightly that when they merge, it's blinding. Diane Nabatoff has a voice that cuts through the air like a siren until it laps lullingly against your ear. Her Reno Sweeny has that extra dimension of depth that you find in the best torch singers--mature, at times slightly removed, a little scared of aging, but always supremely poised. Brick Bushman's engaging Billy never lets the character become plastic, and as his beloved, Ellen Burkhardt is a wonderfully pert ingenue, an island of sanity at sea. Kevin Usher...