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...hand, Studs is about real life. The contestants really are the judo instructors, students and bartenders they say they are. They really did go on dates, to sushi bars, dance clubs and football games. Some really did hate each other. ("He talked my ear off all night long.") Some really did screw each other. ("We topped off the date with a 10-hour mattress marathon...
...name the former baseball player heard on Meatloaf's song Paradise by the Dashboard Light? (Phil Rizzuto.) In what city is the opera Carmen set? (Seville, Spain.) These are typical questions in a new board game for the sound-bite generation, called Play It by Ear. The game is equipped with a compact disc containing 381 different sounds in 12 categories, including speeches, famous sports moments and TV trivia. The package offers nearly 1,800 questions for 24 separate games, and it's a hit. Rykodisc, which makes the $45 game, has sold 50,000 copies in its first month...
...first listen, the mind spins, the ear reels. It sounds as if Ted Baxter, the preposterously pompous anchorman on the old Mary Tyler Moore sitcom, had escaped into the ether and had been resurrected as a talk-show host. Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L...
Such symptoms soon subside and the hairs regain their upright posture -- if the ear gets some rest. But unrelenting noisy assaults can eventually cause the hair cells to lose their resilience and die. They do not regenerate, and the result is a gradual loss of hearing...
Those who cannot escape exposure to loud or prolonged noise should wear ear protectors, which can muffle sound by about 35 decibels. National Institute on Deafness director Snow contends that such protective gear should be as commonplace for children as bicycle helmets and infant car seats. His institute and other organizations are launching programs to educate children about hazards to hearing. And musicians who have suffered hearing loss, including Pete Townshend of the Who, are helping spread the message about the price of high-decibel rock. "We teach kids to keep their hands off the hot stove," says Jeff Baxter...