Word: ears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died, wrote the man who most disliked him, the poet and engraver William Blake, "All Nature was degraded;/ The King drop'd a tear into the Queen's Ear,/ And all his Pictures faded...
...Turtle Diary just to hear Glenda Jackson pronounce the word "turtle." She utters the word with the same subtlety which John Irvin uses to direct the film, both understated and graceful to the ear as well...
...arbiter of emotions until 1973, when his hippie grandson, Jean Paul III, was kidnaped in Italy. Publicly, the wizened billionaire refused to pay ransom, a sound decision since he had 14 other grandchildren and did not want to set a tempting precedent. But after the boy's freshly detached ear was delivered as a warning, the old man lent young Getty's father, Jean Paul Jr., $850,000 to secure his son's release. The agreement called for a reasonable interest rate...
Boulez's music, derived from the twelve-tone system of Arnold Schoenberg, is devoid of conventional melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at first acquaintance, yet, like the notion that Boulez is unfeeling, this too is a misper- ception. Forbidding though his music undeniably can be, it amply repays careful, open-minded listening, gradually revealing its sweep and surge...
...NASA improved your ability to pass judgment on what others had decided?" Cook, who has no engineering experience, seemed stunned and did not reply to the question but forcefully defended the facts in his memo. Two days later, he told the press that NASA engineers had "whispered" in his ear that because of the O-ring problems they "held their breaths" during every shuttle launch. In other testimony, one of NASA's booster experts, Lawrence Mulloy, conceded that damage to the rings had occurred previously. In the 171 joints from spent booster segments that NASA has examined, he said...