Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ransom. In 1973 the kidnapers of 16-year-old Eugene Paul Getty II, grandson of the oil billionaire, kept the boy in captivity through nearly six months of negotiations; the case proved to have any number of sensational aspects. After cutting off the boy's right ear and mailing it to a newspaper in Rome to show his parents that they meant business, the kidnapers collected $2,890,000 and then let him go. Three of the four abductors were captured...
Police prose is a burlesque of the administrative: "I apprehended the alleged perpetrator." (In a bar, the cop would say, "I collared this creep.") Eventually, all officialese takes on a mindless life of its own, the words combining and recombining according to some notion in the bureaucratic inner ear of how public language ought to sound, regardless (or irregardless, as they say) of what it means. This is an aerosol English, released by pushing a button. Writer Jimmy Breslin describes what is perhaps the ultimate in this prose: a policeman, testifying in a homicide case, refers to "the alleged victim...
...order to acquire an ear for a tone of voice, the best thing is to hear it. Here is a poem called Tomb of lasis, written...
...compile small sorrows and acts of redemption. However acute, Exiles was the work of a miniaturist. In Passage to Ararat, Arlen set himself a near-Homeric task: the recovery of a forgotten people. To accomplish that mission he has performed a series of brilliancies: his research is irreproachable, his ear infallible. His writing retains a clarity and fury that animates each line. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page; the victims of mass murder speak out after decades of silence. Immigrants to the New World, exiles of the U.S.S.R., crack jokes at the devil and embrace the present...
...know there's a red light there, how can you ask somebody about the red light? There are hundreds of lights in a studio! You've got three cameras as and there a lot of lights going on and off all the time and people are yelling in your ear, and so they said, 'Now listen, watch the guy with the hand, he'll tell you which camera is on you.' He'd go like this and I'd look that way, but sometimes he'd forget to tell me that the camera was off and I should...