Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before the meeting of this preposterous pair that Pride of the Bimbos excels. Sayles has a deadly accurate ear for Southern cracker dialect ("Chick at awl?" asks a South Carolina gas-station attendant); the jabbering at a sand-lot baseball game ("Chuckerinthereissgahcantit"); and the good-ole-boy humor ("if that woman fell down a well, you could pump ugly for a week"). Best of all, the gruff friendship between Burns and the young son of a teammate is successfully played for both laughs and pathos; as it does in all initiation tales, the moment comes when the boy must measure...
...more economical method would be to require workers to wear earplugs or muffs. Labor retorts that "personal protection," as it is called, can be dangerous. Says the AFL-CIO's Sheldon W. Samuels: "There is a documented case of a man killed by a forklift because with his ear muffs on he did not hear the warning bell." Samuels also argues that plugs "dehumanize a worker half his waking day. If industry thinks they are going to make our people animals, they're nuts...
...Boris has a vision of Death. The embryo philosopher immediately penetrated to the heart of the mystery. What happens after life? He demanded. For example, are there girls? As Boris matures he embraces three things: cowardice, ineptitude and women. "My room at midnight," a countess breathes in his ear. "Perfect," returns the hero. "Will you be there...
Almost everyone has had the near maddening frustration of hearing a nameless melody repeat itself diabolically inside the mind's ear. Relief is on its way. Denys Parsons' Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes, promises its introduction, works even for people who "think that A Flat Major is an army officer who has had the misfortune to be run over by a tank...
...monotony on board ship ("Will relieves Buddy, Byrum relieves Will, Wodies relieves Byrum") is broken by staccato quarrels and spurts of activity when the turtles are hauled in. The crew members emerge from anonymity as their speech patterns and private obsessions are repeated. The dialects begin to tease the ear with unheard melodies. Descriptive passages, when they occur, achieve a haunting beauty: "Where the bonita chop the surface, the minnows spray into the air in silver showers, all across the sunlit coral...