Word: eared
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Balance, be it ideological, legislative or otherwise, is much sought after by politicians. But Ronald Reagan is hoping for a different sort of equilibrium from a second hearing aid that he wore in public last week. The President started wearing an aid in his right ear 18 months ago, but the White House announced that he is now "experimenting" with a second one in his left ear in order "to achieve balance" in distinguishing the direction of sounds...
...Vasya, 15, a schoolboy carrying a guitar in a case: "Personally, I think it's a good thing Gorbachev is young; he's the youngest member of the Politburo. The others are all stuck in their ways now, but Gorbachev has his ear closer to the ground...
...ear job, not an eye job," Regan says. He is constantly being hustled. His role is to hear the pure tones, to sort out the voices that are most often right and get them to the President. Partly this is a matter of mastering new information. Regan found that the Ortega they talked about at the White House was Nicaragua's leftist leader and not Katherine Ortega, Treasurer of the U.S., who signs the money. On TV he was taken aback when asked what the Administration planned to do about AIDS, not the balance of trade...
...ride said he would not attempt to speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language." And an organizer of the event said he liked it better this year than last because there were "more people and a better chance to conjugate." After awhile, the inebriated ear grows accustomed to tortured syntax, and all linguistic motor skills begin to dissipate. And the band plays...
CESAR CHAVEZ, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was in town this week to drum up support for a new grape boycott. It seems the governor of California, George Deukmejian, has turned a deaf ear to the plight of the impoverished--in some cases, starving--laborers, in sharp contrast to the open-arms policies of Chavez old friend, former governer Jerry Brown. Chavez objects specifically to Deukmejian's recent line-veto of an appropriation by the state congress which was to speed up the collection of millions of dollars in back pay owed the workers. But that issue...