Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freshmen would be eating their cream of broccoli soup, and a wildebeast's ear would drop in. It was an unpleasant situation," Gannon said...
...Reagans' 35th wedding anniversary, the President said, as he often does when people ask him his age, "My life began 35 years ago." And only Nancy could promise former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, as she once did, that she would whisper "peace" in Ronald Reagan's ear each night...
...WENT I watched bayou swamp rats quaffing Old Milwaukee and muttering: "It jus' don' get no better than this." I viewed a troop of husky Canadians crooning: "I'll be a Moosehead man for life." Muzak voices whispered seductively in my ear: "Let It Be Lowenbrau." Ice-capped peaks and wild phallic stallions advised me to: "Head for the mountains." I was becoming dizzy. I had to get off this whirling dervish of archetypal images and subliminal cuts...
...journalist and, with Wife Joan Didion, writer of such filmscripts as A Star Is Born and True Confessions, seems to have put his notebooks, filing cabinet and even his sock drawer to good use. His descriptions of courtrooms and Hollywood living rooms suggest nimble legwork and a fine ear. Agent to agent: "You can say what you want about communism, but those boys know how to structure a deal." A caterer on the subject of specialty bar mitzvahs: " 'Mr. Wonderful' is one of our biggest themes . . . Of the traditional variety. Top hat, white gloves." There are even old jokes. Broderick...
...19th century romanticism evolved toward 20th century Holocaust. Clarke's allusive, dreamlike style can mesmerize audiences into believing they perceive subtle new connections among ideas and events. But in The Hunger Artist, which opened off-Broadway last week, Clarke has turned toward narrative and dialogue, and what meets the ear and brain is less than what meets the eye. The passages she has culled from Kafka, particularly The Metamorphosis, are familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist...