Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smiles and starts to blush. "That dirty old man ... oh, excuse me," she says, pulling the dictaphone away from her ear. "Are you looking for the professor...
...incrustation of street slang, non sequiturs, malapropisms and compulsive obscenity. The playwright revels a bit too much in this scatology and blasphemy. Delete the most common four-letter Anglo-Saxonism from the script and his drama might last only one hour instead of two. But Mamet has an infallible ear for the cadences of loneliness and fear behind the bluntness, and he also knows how to make the bluntness very funny...
...these allusions, one of Mamet's favorite methods is basic eavesdropping; the cassette in his ear is continually recording the oddities of human speech. The most conspicuous piece of furniture in his new New York City apartment is a filing cabinet crammed with pages of dialogue overheard in pool halls, bars, elevators, Ping Pong parlors, gambling halls and every other stopping place in a brief, varied career...
RELATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS. The director, says Bush, must have "direct access to the President. Turner apparently already has his ear and that's good. He should have a regular appointment with Carter. He'll have to get up to the Hill a lot. I made 51 formal appearances in less than a year. Congressional oversight has proliferated, and most individual Congressmen realize that oversight now is very different from the past. It's less adversary than it was and much more constructive. Members of Congress are totally informed on the budget, and that...
...street and Bergman from the other. "We don't have to even talk any more on the set," Bergman says of Nykvist, who has worked with him on 18 films. "We instinctively know what we want." Nykvist is hard of hearing in his left ear and Bergman in his right. "When we talk," says the jolly Nykvist, "we look like a pair of geese doing a mating dance...