Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the audience, and began to speak softly. "It is an honor to participate in this Law School Forum at a great university," he intoned slowly. Then his voice began to rise, to speed up, and soon he was hurtling through his speech, ignoring punctuation, and catching breath as he needed it. A bell rang behind him in Rindge Tech, his glasses slid down his nose, but the man continued to talk strenuously about what he knows and knows well--the city of Chicago...
Spain is one of the few places left in the world where celebrities can draw a breath in peace. But there is at least one newshawk among the chickens. Shadowing Holland's visiting Princess Irene, 24, a Madrid photographer followed her to a Roman Catholic church, where he watched her receiving Communion-and stumbled on the best-kept secret of the Dutch House of Orange. Sometime last year "after long and deep thinking," Irene, second in line to the throne, had converted to Catholicism. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, said a hastily prepared royal communique, "fully backed the freedom...
...suffers from a split personality. It was written by Robert Bloch (Psycho), but screams for the sure hand of Hitchcock; it aspires to the Grand Guignol of Baby Jane, but falls short of being droll. Yet despite foolish dialogue, blunt direction, and a fustian plot, there are moments of breath-stopping terror as the heads roll, at times almost literally...
Nothing really "happens"--the characters only mouth rhetoric at a breath-taking pace--yet somehow a consistency works its way out of the cross-fire of symbolism and suggesion. The situation, the action, and above all the language conspire to assure the audience that the play does indeed have ulterior meaning however obscure. Hamm's awful dilemma seems to arise partly from his grotesque alienation from nature ("show me the sea!" he asks over and over) and partly from his urge to interpret anything--or everything--in the metaphor of theater. "We are getting on, we are getting...
...Breath Control. Anyone who consumes a small amount of botulin-contaminated food develops double vision, photophobia, giddiness and sometimes nausea. Muscle spasm makes swallowing painful or impossible. Recovery takes weeks. A bigger dose usually causes death by knocking out the central nervous system's breathing control...