Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oversize, matte-black headsets look like the kind of industrial-strength ear protection worn by airport baggage handlers. But these are no ordinary earmuffs. They are high-tech earphones designed for pilots of small jets and other light (and noisy) aircraft. Rather than soften the drumming engine noise with thick layers of plastic foam, the earphones eliminate it electronically. A tiny microphone samples sound waves at the wearer's ear, processes them through special circuitry and broadcasts countertones that cancel the offending sounds in midair. Result: silence, or something close...
...director-writer team of Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale has created, in the space of just four years, two terrific movies on this subject. Like its predecessor, Back to the Future, Part II does not merely warp time; it twists it, shakes it and stands it on its ear. But as before, the film's technical brilliance is the least of its appeals. Satirically acute, intricately structured and deftly paced, it is at heart stout, good and untainted by easy sentiment...
...catching up is a 20-year-old wearing a leather cross, dangling earrings and a black leather cap angled on a head that is shaved but for red tendrils over an ear. He sits in his jaunty outfit learning fractions and writing poems. The young man's mind is so keen that when a deaf student came to class, he learned to sign in half an hour. This makes him think he may eventually work with the handicapped, but until this year he was not a dedicated student. "I'm quicksilver," he says. "I need stability. Everything else has shifted...
...around 10:20 p.m., a projectile broke the plate glass window, spewing glass all over the common room and on the back of a student watching television there, witnesses said. The student, who was cut on the ear and the back, went to University Health Services but said the wounds were not serious and did not require stitches...
WORLD: East Germany's leaders seem willing to lend an ear to the nation's newly vocal opposition movement...