Word: earlied
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...demand some kind of balancing. But the odds are that behind the control there is more control. Her husband, a tall, slim fellow who puts a lot of emotion into his conversation and his gestures and who is forever touching Cheryl on the arm or smooching her behind the ear, says: "She really is what you see. There is no worm in this apple...
...little entries at the bottom of the page, in which scholars amuse4 themselves if not others. The author holds these in high regard: "By using footnotes judiciously you can fill your reader in on general information he lacks, satisfy his curiosity about fine points, whisper delicious tidbits in his ear, and share with him an occasional small frolic." But banned are such standard and numbing footnote fare as ed. cit., loc. cit., op. cit., idem and ibid...
...other hand, Fisher has had the ear of the director - general of the Israeli foreign ministry, Ephraim Evron, who is rumored to be a leading candidate to be the next Israeli ambassador...
...crowd. In the school play he insists on proving that there are no small parts, only small actors, thereby disrupting the show by turning a bit role in a tragedy into a major comic turn. On a date, he insists on loudly crooning Getting to Know You into the ear of his companion-in a crowded, stuffy restaurant...
...naturalism reigned and bourgeois society was the ordure of the day. The revolutionaries of that epoch now resemble entries on some tarnished armed services memorial: Edward Dahlberg, Benjamin Appel, Richard Wright, James T. Farrell. Of them all, only Farrell is still doing business at the same old stand. His ear for dialogue remains metallic (" 'And now, to no self-neglect,' he said, raising his glass and drinking"). His plots are, as always, mere runways for their adrenal characters. Yet, nearing 74, Farrell shows no signs of flagging energy, and he has lost none of his familiarity with...