Word: nasality
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...unashamed overacting of its cast save The Visit from being monotonous. From the flat-footed scenes where drably dressed women and shirtless men dance without grace (but with much abandon) to the nasal singing of the town choir, the paucity of the acting will enchant...
Leno cites all kinds of comedic models -- Alan King, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor -- but his mentor in the pursuit of popularity was not a comedian but a President. "L.B.J. claimed that every handshake was worth 250 votes," Leno says, in his familiar high-pitched, nasal voice, "because each person then goes and tells someone else you're a good guy and then they go and tell more people...
...calico dresses, a throng of two-stepping dancers is raising a fine cloud of dust under moss-bearded branches. On the stage, silhouetted against a red sunset, Johnny Sonnier's Cajun Heritage lays down a pulsating chank-chank rhythm punctuated by accordion counterpoints, soaring fiddles and a piercing nasal vocal: "Jolie fille, jolie fille...
...rest of the cast is practically seamless. Particularly shining contributions come from Joe Hill, as Charles Errol, a conniving, racist cousin; and Amanda Frye, as a zealous church soloist. The only low point in this area is another church soloist. Beth Salm's, flat and slightly nasal voice...
...findings, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, suggest that the sense of smell may work very differently. When odor molecules drift among the millions of tiny cilia located high in the nasal cavity, they seem to slip into certain odor receptors like keys into locks. The fact that there are such a large number of different kinds of odor receptors suggests that much of the work of discriminating among smells is being carried out at a chemical level within the nose itself. Signals from these receptors are then transmitted to the olfactory bulb, the small region...