Word: eared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scarlet fever epidemic, and young Andras succumbed. He remembers waking up in the hospital and thinking to himself, "I'm dead. I'm in my grave looking up at the sky." The fever left a mark: his eardrums were perforated like a colander, the result of a middle-ear infection...
...Tyson's teeth Bite Me, Part II: in his bout with Evander Holyfield, Iron Mike chomped twice on the heavyweight champ's ear; he lost the fight and, for a year, his license to box. Poor Tyson: he should have tried team sports. Then he could kick a photographer, spit on refs, attack fans--and get a fat contract peddling overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids...
Bill Clinton is not supposed to jawbone the chairman of the Federal Reserve, lest the financial world think he is trying to influence interest rates. But he got a chance to bend ALAN GREENSPAN's ear on another subject this week when the Fed chairman and his wife, NBC correspondent ANDREA MITCHELL, passed through the receiving line at the annual White House Christmas party for members of the press. As they posed for pictures, Clinton asked Greenspan whether he and Mitchell owned a dog. "You ought to get one," Clinton enthused as he recounted tales of his new puppy Buddy...
...Opera and Les Miserables. ("The man writes galumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make...everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seem like great art"--Newsday.) But he is a musical populist and proud of it. "Lyrics can be hard to grasp," he says. "If the music isn't comfortable on the ear and doesn't let the audience flow with it, you can miss a lot." Says Pimpernel producer Kathleen Raitt: "Nobody but the public loves his music...
SUCK IT UP Pediatricians now say babies should be breast-fed for at least a year--rather than just six months. Doing so should help them fight ear infections, diarrhea and other infant ailments. While that's great for babies, it's tough on moms: feeding takes 6 hours...