Word: bronchially
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...with a desperate fortissimo instead of the more difficult pianissimo that Verdi called for in the score. Elsewhere, Pavarotti's eyes clung to the safety of the prompter's box and the conductor's baton, leaving most of the acting to Soprano Margaret Price (battling a bronchial infection but singing well nonetheless) and Stefania Toczyska, a sultry Polish mezzo and a star of the future, whose Amneris blazed with passionate fury...
...Adolf Hitler to act as he did, if it can cause men to attempt to assassinate Presidents and Popes, and shoot blank cartridges at Queens, why cannot "internalized anger and rage" cause the bowels to churn themselves into inflammatory masses, coronary arteries to turn into morbid spasms and bronchial tubes to go into asthmatic constrictions? There are many professionals who believe there may be a great psychosomatic component to Crohn's disease...
...reverent tone as he tells the story. "My dad had had his right lung removed because of cancer and six unsuccessful operations on his left lung. I was talking with [eardiologist] Dr. Powell at a D.U. club function, and he referred me to Dr. Herman Grillo, the leading bronchial tracheologist...
DIED. Bill Evans, 51, facile-fingered jazz pianist and composer whose subtle lyricism and inventive harmonies won him five Grammy Awards and five Down Beat Critics Polls; of a bleeding ulcer and bronchial pneumonia; in New York City. Asked to join the Miles Davis sextet in 1959, he replaced Red Garland in a band that included John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. After a six-month collaboration that resulted in the classic jazz album Kind of Blue, he formed his own trio and recorded such albums as Conversations with Myself and Affinity...
DIED. Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 88, chief of the Vatican's Holy Office under Pius XII and John XXIII and self-described 'policeman" of the Roman Catholic faith; if bronchial pneumonia; in Vatican City (see RELIGION...