Word: earlied
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...have an eye, but he does have an ear. American Pop lurches to life when he appropriates Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, and, later, Bob Seger's Night Moves, to celebrate rock creativity, and evoke a moment, a decade, with poignant immediacy. But neither lasts more than 30 seconds, and sitting through the rest of American Pop is like watching an anthology of melodramatic scenes from late-night movies, with commercials every ten minutes for Greatest Hits LPs. -By Richard Corliss
...prodigious collector of modern slips was Kermit Schafer, whose "blooper" records of mistakes made on radio and television consisted largely of toilet jokes, but were nonetheless a great hit in the 1950s. Schafer was an avid self-promoter and something of a blooper himself, but he did have an ear for such things as the introduction by Radio Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms...
...term singing actress was virtually made for her. She opened up the territory of bel canto that was to be explored by Sills and Sutherland. An equal achievement was her interpretation of the war-horses-Lucia, Tosca-so that the weariest ear could hear them as new works of art. Her musical values were the strictest and most scrupulous. She sang with complete fidelity to the composer and his idiom; yet the human essence of each heroine shone through her interpretation. Audiences felt that they were seeing Norma or Violetta. Hers was not a conventionally "beautiful" voice, like that...
WHAT AILED VINCENT? "I am either a madman or an epileptic," wrote Painter Vincent Van Gogh. Certainly the facts of his life seem to bear him out. In his last years he cut off part of his left ear, drank kerosene, ate paint, and was in and out of a French asylum. In 1890 he shot and killed himself...
...classical dialogues in which both sides are written by the same person, Keenan said, adding that the leader must be careful not to write the student's half, since his job is to stimulate the student to think. Every group means a different experience which must be "played by ear," he said...