Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European Studies, itself a secluded enclave on a quiet residential street four or five blocks from the Science Center, Schama is dressed in stylish New Wave clothes, a fashionable dress leather jacket draped over the back of his chair. His cultured British accent adding, at least to an American ear, an extra touch of grace to his already eloquent speech, Schama speaks of rock music with the same passion with which he discusses academics...
...Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) to coach Williams for Garp's match at Steering School, the fictional New England prep school of the novel. Accompanied by Sons Colin, 16, and Brendan, 11, Irving arrives at the Millbrook gym dressed to grapple: red singlet, kneepads and ear guards that resemble perforated saucers. In preparation for his role as the epical Wrestler-Writer T.S. Garp, "Mork" Williams has selected a modified outer-space look: a shiny blue and green workout suit that encases him from neck to ankles...
...about making revisions. "I never feel something is finished, even on the galleys," he says. "By then it may be just little things, a tense, a semicolon. I make changes in the finished book. No one else will see them, but I know they are there." To Irving, the ear can be as important as the eye. Many of the alterations that are penciled into his books are put there after the public readings that he frequently gives at colleges and seminars. The first to hear a new work is usually his family...
...Governors were concerned that a gamble they made last February was now backfiring. In a bipartisan resolution, they had agreed to support the Reagan Administration's economic program on one major condition: that the Federal Government give them general-purpose block grants rather than money ear marked by Congress for specific uses. These block grants were to be the cornerstone of Reagan's "quiet federalist revolution," in which power would gradually be transferred from overblown federal agencies to state and local authorities. Given greater leeway and less red tape in using federal funds, the Governors were confident that...
...wistful inner ear, one imagines a soft transcontinental buzz, the sound of 13,000 consciences alert and intricately working. "Well," says each troubled voice, "I'd like to strike. I think we have plenty of reason to strike-wages, hours, job strain. But I signed an oath when I took the job. It would be dishonorable to strike. We have to find some other...