Word: earings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibit of some 800 gold shields, swords, necklaces and handicrafts that will be on display through March. The King, who was last in New York in 1969, observed that the city "has grown bigger, with many more buildings, and is cleaner." The mayor obviously did some whispering in his ear. -By Guy D. Garcia...
...have one chance at life," he says, staring around a Paris watering hole, "and I'm not going to waste it on a big house and a new car every year and a bunch of friends who want a big house and a new ear every year...
...medical checkup on the President last May at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The supervising examiner concluded that "Mr. Reagan is a mentally alert, robust man who appears younger than his stated age." The report noted some "diminished auditory acuity" (Reagan wears a small hearing aid in his right ear) and the presence of a small, benign polyp in his colon. The President takes weekly injections for allergies, but no other medicine. Reagan aides reminded reporters that Mondale takes three pills a day for high blood pressure...
...their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased. Then they will be decanted into the bazaar of postcards, datebooks, scarves-everything but limited-edition bronze ashtrays in the shape of the Holy Ear-that the Met provides as a coda. Finally, laden with souvenirs like visitors departing from Lourdes, they will go home. Vincent, we hardly knew...
Both candidates, like skillful attorneys, phrase their campaign speeches to appeal to the "jury's" ear, so that those few seconds of precious film will be broadcast at six p.m. The phrasing of the "jury's" questions--which at the debate averaged a ridiculous 95 words in length--becomes crucial to the message left with the voters. At this particular debate, the panelists were allowed to phrase the same question in subtly different terms for each candidate, a common practice in the campaign as a whole. Perception, nuance, image--all concepts antithetical to the creed of objective journalism...