Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wagner knew exactly what he was doing at Bayreuth. Heard in quick succession, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure and Siegfried have a staggering cumulative effect. By the tune one settles in for the 4½-hour finale, Die Götterdämmerung, the ear reverberates with leitmotivs; and Wagner's gods, earthlings, dwarfs and dragons seem familiar, necessary, among the mind's permanent emotional reference points. One gasps at the death of Siegfried, even if he is the sort who will take a drink from anybody. One worships Brünnhilde as the lover and idealist...
Brooks insists that he nurtures his ego and fends off depression with the aid of Ear-Laff, a tiny device resembling a hearing aid that he purchased from an outfit in the nether reaches of Los Angeles. Whenever he writes, works or performs, Brooks stashes the thing in his ear, where it plays the continual, comforting sound of laughter...
Sugarleaf. Country Music Festival today and tomorrow in Kingfield, Maine, which is quite for north. Featuring Johnny Rodriguez (commercial junk), dick Cureless (the Dean of New England country music, specializing in trucking songs, with a voice so dead that it makes the back up voice in "Duke of Ear" sound like Tiny Tim). Waylon Janinge (the greatest of the Austin-based outlaw country singers), and Scruggs his own self. Tickets at Ticketron...
...commercial version of the trials of Popeye Doyle in search of Frog One--a major supplier of New York's heroin--is therefore a great deal more interesting. Doyle was originally the kind of cop that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their ear if he wanted to call headquarters. And while we were supposed to like him, his temper--the man pounding furiously on the expressionless subway door with his prey smug inside, and his brash lack of cool was supposed to make things more subtle. But it never really worked. When anti...
Meanwhile the state agencies like the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Department of Public Utilities, the Office of Environmental Affairs, etc., who are paid by our taxes, have either helped Harvard's advance or have turned a deal ear to our concerns...