Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything that could possibly go wrong with a show has gone wrong with this musical. The score sticks in your ear like wax. The lyrics consist of ditties that a fifth-grader would not dare to pass in to his English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles...
...revelation that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare will neither accept nor reject Harvard's latest proposal indicates that the government itself is having problems. It is unclear if HEW has decided exactly what standards federal contractors must meet, or if the department is merely playing it by ear...
...Salvador Dali: "He wore a carnation behind his ear to take away the smell. He used to eat tins of sardines and put the oil on his hair...
...Angeles Coroner Thomas Noguchi, after an autopsy, testified that three bullets entered the Senator's body from the rear and that the fatal shot was fired into his brain from only inches behind his right ear...
Author Just, a Washington-based journalist and novelist, has an ear for Washington talk and a dramatist's knack for that precise moment in the flow of chatter when, although nothing important seems to have been said, the lives of the talkers change course. The Senator in his private office is busy phrasing an announcement to the press that he and his wife have separated. With his aide, not incidentally a woman, he searches for a wording that sounds statesmanlike, sober, and does not suggest loose living or the suicidal word divorce...