Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be a mistake to see Woody Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...
...something straight right now, chumps. Anything you do in the next 90 days must go through me," shouts Cash, from a distance of no more than four inches from Parker's ear. "I am God around here, and I am going to see to it that none of you ever gets out of here. You've got a problem with me. I am a certified psycho. I hate this job, and I hate you. I got too much responsibility for a psycho." The tirade continues. "You're in here for burglary," he shrieks at Parker. "You are stupid, you know...
...with an ethanol blend that is 78% gasoline and 22% alcohol distilled from sugarcane. According to Illinois- based Archer Daniels Midland, ethanol blends account for 8% of all U.S. motor fuel. The mixture is readily available in parts of the Midwest at stations that display the gasohol symbol, an ear of corn...
...gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front of a Model A. The man dumped the collected hoppers in a pile, sprayed oil on them and triumphantly set them ablaze. Father, knowing the futility of the effort, still murmured...
HECTOR BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (Angel/EMI). Lean, brisk and idiomatic: Roger Norrington leads the London Classical Players in Berlioz's Manichaean, virtuoso ear grabber...