All these seafood entrees arrived with a red jacket potato, ribbons of julienned zucchini and a half-ear of local corn (the best I've had this season).
We added a bowl of chupe de camarones, a soup somewhere between cioppino and chowder that had an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink combination of rice, potatoes, fava beans, enormous shrimp, a poached egg and a half-ear of corn.
You can sketch along as you measure points in the middle of your subject (such as the eyes of a dog, which might be 1 and a half ear lengths from the bottom of the ear).
A hefty little metal cylinder that looks as much as anything like half an ear of corn, it offers delights as a plaything that are limited only by the imagination of a small boy or girl.
The assortment on the other plate was not quite so photogenic but texturally bolder: whole baby carrots, glazed with honey butter; half an ear of corn flecked with black from the grill; green beans sautéed with almonds and orange zest; and a dish that competed with a hanger steak entree for meatiest: thick, chewy collard greens with a generous, smoke-infused hunk of bacon.
The aromas drifting from the shop draw people who might not even have been thinking about a half-dozen ears of corn for that night's dinner.
Then, draw a line from the top of the half-ear, and over the other side so the tip would be slightly to the side.
He would sit down to the table with a haunch of venison, a whole chicken, two or three gullet breads or a bucket of bangs, half a dozen ears of corn or a bag of raw carrots.
A communal bottle of ear cleaner/medication was applied directly to the ear of patients in just under half of all clinics.
Most female baboons have lost half an ear here, a swatch of pelt there, to the jealous fury of their much larger and toothier mates.
The Korean soloist Kun-Woo Paik brought a serene presence to the keyboard, yet added jazzy flourishes to the east European roulades of the first movement that suggested Bartók may have lent half an ear to the music of Gershwin.
