Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old housewife had a skin condition that later (at Duke) proved not to be a cancer. Convinced that it was, she had gone to a backwoods healer, who applied a salve. Soon a quarter-sized hole disfigured her nose, opened up the nasal cavity. Duke's plastic surgeons had to build her a new nose...
Varaztad H. Kazanjian, professor of plastic surgery, emeritus, operated on Carey in Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston yesterday morning. Carey suffered fractured nasal bones and extensive lacerations on his face, but was reported in good condition last night...
Because of this, Black-Eyed Susan receives a slick performance and manages to escape complete banality. Vincent Price, the only "name" star, does not stand much above his partners, most of whom are equally competent. On stage, his voice has a nasal quality, however, which mars the doctor's studied urbanity. The only actively offensive character is Susan's husband, played by Charles Boaz, whose simpering description of how to make bumpy love in a taxi-cab reaches some sort of low for the evening...
Every Friday at noon from Cairo to Karachi, the thin nasal wail of muezzins crying, "There is no God but Allah," calls the faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...
Musical Momist. What is Liberace's magic? It could be merely the irresistible appeal of his shining mediocrity. But there is also his quality-which comes out in his bounciness, his sweet smile, his nasal voice, his my-oh-my prose style-of being just a big little boy. And a good boy, too, who would never swear or drink or leave his poor old mother while he ran off with some young hussy. Liberace is fully aware of this appeal. Says he: "Unfortunately, there are too many lonely mothers around today, deserted by their children when they need...