Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quorum call, most Senators, Republican and Democratic alike, quickly disappeared again. Since a recess can be demanded whenever 51 members can not be rounded up for a roll call, and since 51 Senators could rarely be rounded up last week, Southerners primed for filibuster were able to save their breath...
Bobby's every activity is prominently and exhaustively chronicled-from a breathtaking ride down 100 turbulent miles of Idaho's Salmon River to an out-of-breath conquest of Canada's 14,000 ft. Mount Kennedy. Ever voracious for Kennedyana, reporters besiege him with requests for interviews, including at least five or six each week from foreign correspondents whose readers from Bangkok to Bonn, much like their American counterparts, have an insatiable appetite for his latest derring...
...season got underway. "I have no desire to get back into TV," he said. "It's dull. It's canned. It's tasteless. It's been swallowed up by Madison Avenue. Right after the dinner hour, we hear all about underarm deodorants, bad breath, dentures. It's disgusting. There is an easy way to make it on TV-you learn their ten commandments, which start with Thou shalt kill,' 'Thou shalt lie,' 'Thou shalt be a cutthroat...
STRAUSS: FOUR LAST SONGS (Angel). On records, at least, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is still one of the supreme vocal artists of the day. Here she gives a seamless performance, as if all four songs were drawn on one breath. Her performance may not quite measure up to Lisa Delia Casa's classic recording of a decade ago, which is an irresistible blend of youthfulness and melancholy; yet Schwarzkopf sounds as if she had lived the life now ending and better understands the tragic resignation...
Sure enough, it squeaks through, and as the heart once more explodes into action the voyagers are hurled into even more photogenic adventures. To replenish their air supply, they snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...