Word: earings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove a Mazda RX7. How did he afford it? "Easy," he says. Hudson, 25, played basketball for a time overseas. Today he wears $450 amber-tinted sunglasses and a diamond stud in his left ear. He still talks about making the N.B.A., but a knee injury he suffered in college makes that a long shot...
They are easy on the ears, a test for the fingers and a balm for the spirit. With a little imagination and manual dexterity, electronic keyboards can make otherwise struggling players feel like pros. Not like Horowitz, exactly; more like Flash Gordon auditioning for a garage combo, or one of those zoological enigmas who made spacey sounds in the Star Wars saloon. Keyboards can reproduce instrument sounds, even sample sound effects (from a rain forest to a barking dog), and turn any tin ear into a one-man band...
Moreover, doctors warn that even brief exposure to noise levels greater than 115 decibels can result in permanent hearing damage. But boomers turn a deaf ear to such objections. With one sound-off rally scheduled for Austin in two weeks and another on Easter Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla., the air will soon be filled with the sound of cars going boom in the night...
...military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When the lead vehicle clattered past the last checkpoint and onto Soviet soil, the six young soldiers on board broke into ear-to-ear grins...
...Thelonious S. Monk, as well as new tunes that he has created himself. Even on these new melodies the influence of jazz greats such as John Coltrane are evident. In essence, he borrows from the old and expands on that to formulate songs that are delightful to the ear...