Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years old at the time and productively disturbed. In the summer of 1981, Chris Columbus, a former student at the New York University Film School, was living in a loft in the garment district of Manhattan. "When I went to sleep at night," he recalls, "I could hear mice scurrying along the floor. I slept with my arm draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea for Gremlins. "His imagination stoked...
When he did get up and hear the news, he persisted in believing that the Normandy invasion was just a feint, that he still had to guard against the real invasion that would occur at Calais. Not until ten hours after the Normandy landings did the first tanks of the 21st Panzer Division go into action against the British, and the British beat them back. When Rommel finally returned to his headquarters that night, he found his chief of staff, Lieut. General Hans Speidel, listening to Wagnerian opera records. One of Rommel's aides protested, but Speidel coolly
...they felt as young soldiers mixed with something akin to guilt for having survived when death randomly took so many friends. At Omaha Beach, where the water's edge turned red from American blood, returning veterans remember the deafening roar of battle, the smoke and confusion. All they can hear now is the lap of a low surf, the keening of seagulls and occasionally the shouts of children playing on the beach. The puzzle is how to connect the remembered knot of constant fear, the moments of horror and exhilaration in combat, with the tranquil landscape beyond the beach...
TIME has learned that Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who headed the Donovan inquiry in 1982, was on the Schiavone spies' list of targets. Silverman said last week that he was "appalled" to hear Schiavone's agents had designated him for investigation and that he considered such actions to be "perilously close to obstructing justice." Sharer says Schiavone boasted of getting material from Silverman's staff. Schiavone Lawyer Geiser denies that the company received leaks from that office...
...Only, which brought Gershwin back to Broadway, Sellars apparently wanted to show how he would have directed Gershwin had he been allowed to. In fact, using only two pianos, he and Musical Director Craig Smith stage the songs with charm and style. It is a pleasure to hear little-known works like the title song along with old favorites like Fascinating Rhythm, which is affectingly sung by Marianne Tatum and a group of children. But with very few exceptions, George and Ira seem as uncomfortable in Gorky's play as they would be if they had been invited...