Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eating a quiet dinner the other night, counting the peas and carrots in my turkey pot pie, when I noticed that a very burly, almost-rabid lineman was inserting a custard-filled eclair into my right ear...
...sang several performances. Conductor Richard Bonynge heard him and was "bowled over." Eventually, Pavarotti found himself singing with Bonynge's wife, Joan Sutherland, in a Miami production of Lucia di Lammermoor. To Sutherland's skeptical eye, this strapping unknown looked like "a big schoolboy." But to her ear? "Well, it was absolutely phenomenal ? the fabulous resonance, the shading, such range, such security." The Bonynges signed him up for a 14-week tour of Australia...
...caught Hong Kong flu and had to withdraw halfway through the second performance. It took him three years to overcome that anticlimactic beginning at the house. But when he did, in a production of The Daughter of the Regiment with Sutherland, he set New York on its critical ear with a spectacular series of nine high Cs in a single aria. With no little help from the publicity mills, Pavarotti the supertenor...
Kosinski is 46, and readers have a right to wonder whether his unparalleled ear for language and his eye for social nuance are to be used solely for elaborations of the same theme. For the past several books, Kosinski has been as aimless as his characters who believe that the going is the goal. That is not true for polo. It is even less so for novelists, even gifted ones. -Stefan Kanfer
George Marshall, that giant of the inchoate American empire, once said. "Never underestimate the American people." In 1976, the American people bounced Gerald Ford on his ear and elected a Bert Lance subsidiary named Jimmy Carter, making Ford the first incumbent to get the Golden Toe since Herbert Hoover. Even they could see the shallowness and stupidity written on Ford's big Labrador face. But Carter? Nixon? Johnson? Kennedy? Maybe they weren't so shrewd. Maybe Gerald Ford, the one they hadn't picked, was the best President that generation ever had. Read 'em and weep...