Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, the children are prepared with fresh flowers. They file up the road to the church, singing, four of them bearing the little coffin on a crude wooden frame. Inside, Don Efren plays a twangy banjo and Senora Gudelia and Senora Rosa sing an endless song in nasal harmony while two cousins perform a funereal ritual before the coffin. The other children play for their mothers' attention, or titter, or hold back their tears...
Even now that the Arab offensive has been more successful than he expected, the nasal-voiced general vows that he will "break the bones" of his adversaries. He has done it before. Twice he commanded Israeli forces that captured territory in the Sinai, once in 1948 and again in 1956. In 1967, it was his daring use of Israeli innovations in armored warfare, especially the use of tanks at night and in hilly fighting, that was decisive in rolling back Syrian ground forces. Leading the assault from a front-line halftrack, Elazar took the Golan Heights during...
...upper and lower levels at Park Street present the same tunes in different settings. Downstairs, the speakers are subtle and the Muzak low-keyed. Upstairs, because of the openness and noise, the Muzak is piped over bullhorn speakers at a louder volume. The result is a nasal blaring sound, like something that would come out of the PA system at a Nixon rally. The upper level is a better place to listen -- if only because the trolleys are better equipped to drown out the melody. But when they are absent, the high-decible Muzak is nearly unbearable...
Died. Vaughn Monroe, 61, singer-bandleader whose off-key, nasal baritone made million-selling recordings of Racing with the Moon, Ballerina and There! I've Said It Again; after stomach surgery; in Stuart, Fla. A onetime trumpeter in East Coast society bands, Monroe formed his own group in 1940 and during the next decade combined a regular radio show (Camel Caravan) with as many as 200 one-night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock...
...frequent side effect of heavy use is bleeding from the nose, a result of injury to nasal membranes. Snow can also cause hyperactivity and damage to the nervous system. Many long-term users have suffered psychotic symptoms, such as imagining insects crawling under their skin. Still, snorting cocaine is not as bad as injecting it into a vein; a mainlined overdose can literally freeze respiration and stop the heart-permanently. Considering these hazards, the king of drugs, as cocaine is often called, is something of a tyrant...