Word: earful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away his crutches and, in search of his missing Bess, lurches off painfully, heroically into a blaze of backlighting. It's a dazzling final image, but one that also points up the drawback of Nunn's approach. This Porgy provides more compelling drama for the eye than for the ear...
...Three former Hizballah hostages look back with dignity, harrowing detail and humor. CINEMA M. Butterfly and Farewell, My Concubine plumb the androgynous East. MUSIC In Miles Davis' final live album, a burst of brilliance. TELEVISION The first televised Porgy and Bess offers more drama for the eye than the ear...
Sporting his trademark mohawk, gold chains adorned with silverware, massive hoop earrings (three per ear) and five rings, Hollywood celebrity Mr. T made a colossal appearance at a Lampoon informational meeting last night...
...small three-room office overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene in western Idaho, the man with a phone to his ear looks like another recreational fisherman in polo shirt and khakis lining up a partner for an afternoon of angling. But Robert Potter is actually an expert at a different kind of fishing -- trolling for out-of-state companies. His trophies are impressive. As president of Jobs Plus, a nonprofit economic-development firm in Coeur d'Alene, he has single-handedly lured 35 companies to the lake area since 1987 -- 30 of them from Southern California. His technique is so simple...
Mahoney has an infallible ear for the spoken word and an eye for telling detail. Whoredom's vignettes are encased in prose so pellucid and evocative that readers may want to stop and reread passages just to savor their rhythms and imagery. Take a look back at Mahoney's reaction to Lillian Hellman's remark about "the little Irish girl." You could do a ton of reading before catching a sentence as fierce and fine as that...