Word: nasality
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...ACTORS INHABIT Innaurato's universe with relish and sensitivity, turning in uniformly splendid, often unforgettable performances. Jeff Gerrard gives a delightfully detailed performance as Francis, from his nasal prissiness and grandmotherly peevishness to his awkward, chunky waddle. As his father, John Lagioia affects the stance of a fifth-grade toughie, his bluster sometimes dissolving into a haggard awareness. As Bunny, Laurel Cronin's intelligence, feeling--those drunken arias!--comic timing, and, finally, beauty are every bit as elephantine as her frame. There is fine support from Kaye Kingston's ghoulishly tacky Lucille and Ann Kerry's fetching Judith...
...different, then he is singing in much the same way. When he belts out "Shine Your Light," the album's most inspired tune, he could be singing "Hard Rain." But Dylan falls below the usual quality of his well-known calls of the wild. In the same song, his nasal vocals are so strained his voice sounds like a parody of itself. The closest Dylan gets to his familiar tone is on the title track--the most political of the album's songs. But just when it sounds like the old Dylan, with angry lyrics about political ironies and human...
...phenylpropanolamine (PPA). Benzocaine is a local anesthetic that has long been used to soothe skin irritations and itching. Added to special chewing gums or candy, it presumably dulls the taste buds and discourages eating. PPA, a drug related to the amphetamines, has enjoyed a long history as a nasal decongestant in cold remedies. In such popular diet pills as Dexatrim, Prolamine, Spantrol and Appedrine (which also contain caffeine), manufacturers say that it depresses the brain's "appetite center" in the hypothalamus...
That could some day become a standard question among men and women. Writing in the British journal Lancet last week, Researchers Christer Bergquist, Sven Johan Nillius and Leif Wide of the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, reported progress toward an unusual goal: the development of a nasal spray contraceptive. In their work, they used a derivative of a hormone known as LRH (for luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone). In high daily doses the experimental chemical inhibits ovulation by curtailing the secretion of still other hormones called gonadotropins, essential for the maturing and release of the eggs...
...Though the hormone's long-term effects are still unknown, immediate side effects were limited to coldlike sniffles and temporary headaches. There is speculation that LRH derivatives may also prove useful as a male contraceptive since gonadotropins regulate the production of sperm, but the actual marketing of a nasal contraceptive for either men or women is years away...