Word: nasality
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...walls, as he shone everywhere else he went that day (in appearances at City Hall; Washington Square Park; Gracie Mansion, the official residence; at Shea; in Queens; at the Yale Club) moving right along, touting his achievements the way politicians do, but more openly, aggressively than most, the insistent nasal voice assuring all audiences equally that the city was in the very
...with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies, smelly peasants, and a trio of disco-dancing suits of armor...
...next song is going to mark a departure from the usual repitoire (A word pronounced with extreme nasal intonation--intentional? I have no idea) of college men's chorouses. It's usually the unrelieved round of drinking songs and love songs and songs about girls and, well let's face it, sex. (minor laughter) This next song is going to cover a topic that is often neglected by groups of our kind; and that is (pause) horticulture...
When the harmonies fall away. Wild Planet finally displays Cindy Wilson's voice, which usually lurks in the background. Wilson grabs the spotlight on "Gimme Back My Man" and even shows up Debbie Harry in Harry's nonchalant nasal style. Wilson sings so convincingly that even an absurd lyric like...
...texts. But none of them have digested so many facts so well. Wittily, the authors explain why Muslims eschew pork (pigs would have been an ecological disaster in the Middle East) and why chicken soup -so-called Jewish penicillin-really does help to cure a cold (it comforts nasal passages). They show why Chinese drink no milk, discuss the Aztec hunger for human flesh (people who ate people were the victims of protein deficiency) and explain why Africa's Bemba society would collapse into chaos without beer (a major source of nourishment as well as a ceremonial beverage). Consuming...