Word: earful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...switching from stiffer Presbyterian hymns to songs from the black gospel tradition. At first the choir director resisted, purposefully playing off tune during gospel hymns. Now the church has its own mostly black gospel choir. No one in it knows how to read music, but they learn songs "by ear" and sing them from the heart. And, by most accounts, the music is heavenly...
...Power of Racism. But the real lesson of Oakhurst isn't on a page, it's in the spirit of the gospel music swelling out of the church every Sunday at 11 a.m. Anyone who wants to learn this tune is going to have to do it by ear...
SHOULD ART BE SEEN AND NOT heard? An old-fashioned notion--the catalog to the Bruce Nauman retrospective, currently at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, has a human ear on its cover. And indeed, no show was ever noisier. Go in, and you hit a wall of sound, all disagreeable: moanings and groanings; the prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed...
...frosh, pre-frosh. You have such richness ahead of you. A scrutiny each week. Pipeline records, right down the Avenue. The treasures and pleasures of Harvard University Archives, 134,728 chickwich patties per year. Ear! Drink! Man. Woman...
...more embarrassing, says the manager, was a scene just last year after a business meeting. "On the way out of the building, as he was saying goodbyes, Bolduc turned to one woman employee and instead of shaking her hand, pulled her toward him and stuck his tongue into her ear. She was startled, but she laughed it off. When he did the same thing to a second employee, it was no longer funny...