Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk. First, according to State Department spokesman John Hughes, an international legal battle would draw energy away from the "regional negotiations" which are "the best way to resolve the conflicts in Central America." That makes some sense, but Hughes neglected to mention that the Administration has turned a deaf ear to the Contadora group, which has been pushing for negotiations all along. Nor did Hughes address the discrepancy between the alleged heartfelt desire for negotiation and the real Administration emphasis of late: squeezing a bloated military assistance budget out of Congress and clandestinely mining Nicaraguan harbors without informing key members...
...lost an ear when space funding ran into trouble recently," Tanabaum said. Since the Space Shuttle has dominated the NASA budget over the past several years, "leading to a backlog of other high quality programs...
...Home, Daddy." But Daddy cannot hear the chirping cardinals or see the sunlight on this bright spring day. A stroke has left him a vegetable, and created the conflict of a black and bizarre comedy about an American family gone wild. Don't worry," Eily coos comfortingly into the ear of her zombie-like spouse, "these things happen to everybody...
...abuse, invective and those four-letter words that describe things people do every day in the privacy of their bedrooms and bathrooms. It may be that no salesman, not even these salesmen, would traffic so doggedly in obscenity. But to say this is to assume that Mamet's ear-to-the-gutter dialogue is naturalistic. It is not. This is street slang refined and extended into the surreal, the baroque, the abrasive, the lyrical. And as spoken in blazing ricochet rhythms by his energized septet of actors-especially Mantegna, Prosky and Lane Smith as a harried customer who comes...
...pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel. Powell, 31, a Houston roofer, has all the literary equipment for a new career: a peeled eye, a tuning-fork ear and an innovative way with local color and regional speech...