Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast, finding itself with shallow, mechanical parts, has retaliated by only going through the motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...
...gold. Portia appears in a peach gown (designed, like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia in the Festival's 1957 production...
Convicting Evidence. Kersta's conclusion-and his voiceprint technique-is based on the principle that every individual's voice is as unique as his fingerprints. Because the frequencies and energy distribution of the human voice are determined by the size and coupling of the nasal, throat and oral cavities and by the manner in which each person uses his articulators (tongue, teeth, lips, soft palate and jaw muscles), Kersta says, it is highly improbable that any two voices can be identical. Thus, voiceprints, like fingerprints, can be used to make a positive identification. Whispering, muffling the voice, changing...
Surrounding Caesar in this tasteless Runyonesque rehash are such holders of the borscht belt as Jan Murray, Ben Blue, Bill Dana, George Jessel and Mickey Deems. Of them all, Jessel is the only one comic enough to deserve the name-and that only by parodying his own nasal eulogizing at the services of a policeman who was trampled to death during a movie premiere...
YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (Columbia). The Byrds first took wing as interpreters of Bob Dylan and on their fourth album soar highest with one of Dylan's old songs, My Back Pages. Where Dylan himself sang the disillusioned sermon like a harsh and nasal backwoods evangelist, the Byrds weave it into a more mellifluous and harmonic song. They also chirp sweetly about what seem to be LSDelightful reveries (Mind Gardens, Renaissance Fair...