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PULP PROPHET White-maned, white-suited, his omnipresent cigar cocked at a jaunty angle, Sam Fuller, encountered in Parisian exile, briefly stilled the stream of consciousness that usually rushed across his gravel-bed larynx. He was searching for something he rarely offered in his movies--a neat summarizing idea. "That's it," he finally offered. "A director takes a song, a lyric, and makes a symphony of it. Does that make sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: Sam Fuller | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...discrimination claim is rooted in the fact that he has used esophageal speech since his larynx was removed two years ago because of cancer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Is Suing Harvard Hospitals | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...voice box, or larynx, then resonates inside the head to produce a tone. "Outside of the head it might sound like a trumpet mouthpiece with no trumpet," he explains...

Author: By Steven G. Dickstein, | Title: Making Opera House Calls | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

Some vitamins are easy to come by. A single orange, for example, provides 116 percent of the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of Vitamin C, which helps the body fight off colds and may lower the risk for cancer of the larynx, esophagus and lung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Do You Know About Vitamins? | 2/3/1993 | See Source »

...seat, while the Caroline rolled down a distant runway, headed for another city, another rally. Kennedy reigned in his swivel chair at the center of the cabin, barking at his campaign organizers, laughing at the pratfalls of the traveling press, sucking on Callard & Bowser butterscotch squares for his strained larynx, and showering the floor with the devoured pages of the day's newspapers. All the while a comely stewardess rubbed Frances Fox tonic into his luxurious shock of hair, a zealously tended political asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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