Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extremist. I call for extreme measures to solve extreme problems. Where face and freedom are concerned I do not use or prescribe half measures. To me life without control over the determining factors is not worth the effort of drawing breath. Without self-determination I am extremely displeased...
That protean public performer, Norman Mailer, 48, shuffled through three two-minute rounds with former Light Heavyweight Champion José Torres on TV's Dick Cavett Show. After Mailer got his breath, Cavett brought up the subject of the brain damage boxers sustain in the ring compared with that of writers at the bar. Mailer was predictably glad to expound from experience. "The brain damage I suffered here just now," he said, "is far less than I suffer after a night of heavy drinking. My brain isn't as good as it was years ago, but I didn...
...devotees of Grove Press. Instead he is Jake Masters (Allen Garfield), a very raunchy and extremely paunchy victim of private eyestrain. Masters, whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets out of breath cutting corners, hasn't enough hair to make a wig for a grape, and cowers before any weapon larger than an insult. Nevertheless, in accordance with the rules of soft-core pornography, he attempts to be Casanova in Jockey shorts. On the trail of an anonymous killer, Jake samples...
...that rare individual, a genuine musical prodigy-and on an instrument that demands physical maturity above all else. Many a child can scribble music or peck away at the piano. But an accomplished trumpeter needs a strong, well-developed diaphragm to pump a constant, high-pressure stream of breath into his horn. He needs powerful, tireless lips to shape his embouchure (or his "pucker," as Louis Armstrong liked to call it). Enrico...
...piano. Recalls Enrico: "Dad bought me a trumpet. Then he brought in a teacher. Most people think you blow ordinary when you blow a trumpet. You don't. You have to put your lips together and make a sound like bluebottle flies buzzing on the window." Breath control exercises came next-"lying on me back with a book on me stomach so I could see me breathing...