Word: earlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith's jaw. Next day, Mailer and Actor Rip Torn were doing a scene-and pow again! Torn whammed Mailer over the head with a toy hammer, to which Mailer responded by chewing away on Torn's ear. "I was making a movie on a violent subject," said Norm. "Obviously you can't always control violence." True, but not necessarily beautiful...
Everything By Ear. Williams was born Louis Weertz, the son of a Lutheran minister from the corn country of Nebraska and Iowa. At eight, he had learned to play 13 instruments by ear, but he did not get serious about the piano until one of his teachers told him he would never be anything but a music teacher. "That's when I started practicing eight, ten hours a day," he says. "I had a tremendous desire to be famous." He needed it. At Iowa's Drake University, where he got a master's degree in music, professors...
...Grand Axis. "My life is architecture," says Owings. For him it means operating with a telephone grafted to his ear and a suitcase ever handy for a dash from California's Big Sur. Often he is on the road for weeks on end, racks up 20,000 air miles a month. He drops in on each S.O.M. office, tramps through national parks as a special consultant to the Department of the Interior, returns to California to help plan a Victorian-style convention center for Monterey, meets actual and potential clients everywhere. Such total absorption led to divorce from his first...
...King George III, in all his majestic wisdom, had a sympathetic ear for the complaints of Colonists in benighted America. After a few piddling misunderstandings, he benevolently suggested in 1776 that they draw up a declaration of independence and make a go of it without the Mother Country, thus anticipating the end of colonialism even before establishment of the Empire. - To foster naval technology, meteorological research and Anglo-Hispanic relations, Spain's King Philip II sent his Armada on a good-will visit to Britain. On its completion, all participating mariners agreed that the cruise had given them...
Later in the apartment Murray couldn't resist, he put his arm around Sylvia; he wanted to tell her a secret so that he could whisper in her ear again, but he couldn't think of one so he just told her that...