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Nobody would say Lauda lost his nerve. "Desire" is the right word. In a fearful and fiery 1976 crash in Germany, Lauda's helmet had been ripped off, his left ear burned off, his lungs seared; he was given the last rites. Six weeks later he drove again, and one year later he was champion again. Then Lauda walked away. Why did he come back? "The challenge," he said...
DIED. Neil Bogart, 39, maverick entertainment mogul whose "ear for the street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart...
Maybe a central problem, for Chancellor as for Moyers, is that illustrated commentary blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The difficulty is television's strange mismatch of eye and ear: the ear often skeptically disputes what it is told, but the eye accepts as reality the picture before it. Words that might seem bland on an Op-Ed page can take on unexpected and unpredictable force when matched with pictures. Perhaps this is why, in a libel case in Cleveland, a federal judge refused to admit the typed transcript of a broadcast as evidence, ruling that the jury...
...ear, words beyond numbering zip into the mind and flash a dizzy variety of meaning into the mysterious circuits of knowing. A great many of them bring along not only their meanings but some extra freight-a load of judgment or bias that plays upon the emotions instead of lighting up the understanding. These words deserve careful handling-and minding. They are loaded...
After this weekend's meet. McCurdy intends to spend time with his wife and see more of his five children--none of whom are runners--but the rest he plans to play by ear. Said the man who has so carefully directed generations of Harvard runners. "I've never made any plans in my life. Why should I start...