Word: nasality
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...unprepared viewers, the first exposure to Steve Urkel is apt to come as a shock. With oversize glasses, pants hiked up to his armpits, piercing nasal voice and snorting laugh, he's the nerd who came to dinner. When he isn't rattling off irrelevant factoids ("Did you know there are 99.3 million cows in the U.S.?") or speaking Japanese with the high school principal, he is making a general pest of himself with the family down the block. He is especially smitten with their 15-year-old daughter Laura, whom he showers with pet names ("Hi, my little Jell...
Unfortunately, nosering wearers acknowledge that their nasal adornments often end up piercing their parents' hearts. For Nestor, at least, Mom and Dad were less than thrilled at their child's newest jewelry item...
...nasal infections are more than just a pain. According to Dr. Daniel H. Vogel, an Arlington ear nose and throat practitioner, infections can pose a serious medical risk...
Taylor, for instance, says she was once told in a job interview that if she wanted the job, she would have to remove her nasal adornment...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...