Word: eared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider the case of Dr. Robert A. Lopez, a veterinarian from Westport, N.Y., who won the Ig Nobel in entomology for putting ear mites from cats into his own ears. What reason could a veterinarian have for experimenting on himself...
...years ago, a woman brought a cat into his practice that had a lot of "black stuff" in its ears. Lopez, quickly diagnosed the cat as having ear mites, Otodactes cynotis, and promptly treated...
...Tarantino movie has this effect on people. There's an ear-slicing scene in Reservoir Dogs, the 1992 heist movie he wrote and directed, that revolts some folks who have never even seen it. In True Romance and Natural Born Killers, two Tarantino scripts with identical itineraries (Bonnie and Clyde going to hell in a hot rod), knives skate across faces and guns blow fishbowl holes in stomachs. When a tough wants to leave his mark on someone, he does it with a mutilating flourish. Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom...
...relative nonsinger, John McMartin as Cap'n Andy, who is the surprising hit of the show: his desperate reenactment of the interrupted play-within-a-play, The Parson's Bride, is a comic highlight that stays in the mind the way Ol' Man River stays in the ear...
...answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf in one ear and has only 5% hearing in the other, won the 74th annual Miss America Pageant, she didn't realize it until her runner-up pointed to her. Then she burst into happy tears -- joined, undoubtedly, by thousands of viewers around the country...