European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Nosing around for news May put nose out of joint this will be part of a continuing series which does no to continue very often on various anatomical features. Having looked into the car the knee the Elbow and the Eyebrow in past columns i today consider the nose. While it is generally thought that we smell with our noses the truth is we done to smell with our noses any More than we hear with our cars. The nose is the outer manifestation of the olfactory Organ the part of the body located in the nasal cavity just behind the nose that actually receives and sorts out doors. The nose is merely the passage through which stuff that smells Good or bad enters. It seems unlikely that god thought of it at the time he created Man but for people past the age of 40. The principal use of the nose is As the feature of the face on which we hang our glasses. The nose alone without the ears for holding up the frames of the glasses would be worthless. Or vice versa. No feature on the face More clearly defines what a person looks like than the nose dominates a persons appearance and people like to have a Good looking one. Because the nose readily accepts reorganization., some doctors who Don t have anything to do with helping anyone get Well when they re sick make big Money fixing noses. Doctors who specialize in fixing noses that Aren t broken Are not considered serious doctors by other doctors. A few people have turned an unattractive nose into an asset. The great comedian Jimmy Durante had a Long nose and was known As a the sch nozzle is a Slang word for nose. The actress Myrna Loy has a Small nose that gave her a special look in the thin Man movies. A person with a Small nose is often described As a pert there is no evidence that a person with a big nose smells More or better than someone with a Small one. A bloody nose is often a child a first Contact with the fluid that Hows through his veins. I say a a his veins because boys Are More Apt to get bks Ray noses than girls. A bloody nose May also be a child a first exposure to quack Medicine because everyone has a suggestion about the Best Way to Stop a nose bleed none of which is based on scientific evidence. Noses arc used frequently in language in other ways than to describe that feature on the face. For example things Are often Quot As Plain As the nose on your face Quot or a person May a pay through the when a person a keeps his nose to the it Means he works hard. A person who works in the news business is said to have Quot a nose for when someone says a keep your nose they mean a stay out of a Good Way to indicate displeasure with something is to a turn up your nose at Quot or Quot wrinkle your nose. The origin of the word Quot wrinkle Quot in this context is not Clear nor is the idea of a turning up Quot your nose. A person s nose is largely out of that persons control and cannot really be a turned there Are do Muscles in the nose Worth talking about. It can to be controlled or moved about in any Way except to the extent that moving some other part of your lace causes the nose to go a Short was with it. Quot a a person who is called a Nosy Quot or who a puts his nose in someone else s business Quot is someone who intrudes where he Isnit wanted. A Strong person often Lead s a weak one Quot by the and a person w to does no to visualize what is about to happen a a can to see any farther than his to say of someone Quot Llis nose is out of joint Quot Means the person has been offended. It i saw someone read this and then put his thumb and the knuckle of his forefinger or his nostrils and Pinch his nose together. Id know what that person thought of this column. Tribune Media services is Michaal Abrams Paul Mccartney in concert at the fest Halle in Frankfurt Germany in october 1989. Mccartney a new a get backs film wanders off key by John Anderson new Day if you re not a Rabid Paul Mccartney Ian you should probably surrender your Belt and shoelaces before sitting Down to watch get Back. And even then. The concert film which concerns Mccartney a 1989-90 world tour was directed by Richard Lester who also did the beatle films a Hurd Day s night and help Chalk up the Overly indulgent and Adul Atory tone of the movie As Well As its length to the longtime association Between the two. And nostalgia of which Lester takes full advantage. The film is full of Light and smoke and the / mop topped Mccartney smiling cutely and people a lots of people a with tears in their eyes. And not because of Linda Mccartney a singing. You can to hear her at All. In addition to presenting Mccartney As pop idol Lester seems to be attempting subliminal revisionism. By inter cutting scenes from previous beatles movies a bund on the run for instance is accompanied by a scene of the beatles being chased by a tank in help a he succeeds in breaking up the Pace. But when Mccartney sings the Long und winding Roud and we re subjected to grueling newsreel footage from the Vietnam War it suggests the song has some political meaning that Mccartney along with John Lennon was primarily a political artist Way Back in the late 60s. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Long and winding rond was and As far As we know still is. About sex. The same thing is done with fool on the Hill. Why do we Sec and hear oratory from the Martin Luther King jr.? its incongruous. Mccartney Wasny to Lennon. Agitating for social change Wasny tone of his priorities and to suggest it now is counterfeiting history. It s also a disservice to Mccartney to show these kinds of scenes. It emphasizes How trite much of the subject matter was in his songs especially compared to Lennon the other beatles Are referred to during the film Lennon particularly fondly. And. After All we each have our own memories that Are evoked by particular songs. Lester not Only cuts to other films in the course of the movie but also to other concerts in the Middle of songs picking up the next note in an other City. The technique is amusing in a Way although in one sequence the same peripatetic woman seems to be in every City. But doing this also Points out How formulaic the shows must have been. Many wonderful songs Are played and the band a Flamish Stuart Robbie Mcintosh in aul Wickens Chris Whitten and Linda Mccartney is solid although the band members Are concerned mostly with re creating the sound of beatle records. The real problem with get Buck is that it goes on too Long. And what Mccartney could pull of in 1964. He can t always do now. Singing a she was just 17, you know what i Means when you re 20 is one thing. When you re pushing Stit s a whole other i m b 1 or a \
