Word: nasality
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...Also, feel free to challenge me. Last week a reader challenged me to write a column about colostrum. I would definitely be willing to write on such a hilarious topic if only I knew what the heck colostrum is. It sounds like it should be a nasal decongestant of some sort, and let me tell you, there is nothing funny about having a runny nose…unless your feet smell...
...have fun, with the result that she was the crowd-pleaser of the production. Sullivan seamlessly morphed from one role into another, cracking her gum as Undine’s not-too-bright valley-girl assistant, then smiling sickeningly over her clipboard and talking in a nasal voice as the counselor of a drug rehabilitation group. Her performance as the belligerent hooker who shares Undine’s jail cell was unforgettably comic...
...Klyce ’10) does the lion’s share of the seducing. (It’s worth the price of admission, by the way, just to hear how much fun Munson has pronouncing his name.) Strutting around in uniform with a charismatic squint and a terrifically nasal speaking voice, Klyce’s strong, clear tenor plays second fiddle only to his great comic timing. There’s a joke involving the hilt of his sword and an erection that is much funnier than it has any business being, and that’s entirely...
...bombastic as any of the other tracks, manage a few moments of musical understatement, with simple piano or guitar lines before they jet off into the emosphere. While the writing is stronger here, lead singer Gerard Way’s voice is least suited to these songs, with a nasal quality that can’t do sadness well, quietly...
...band gets with the girl. It’s 70s, with the square-frame glasses and garish striped ties, but the boys wear ’em with irony suitable for the oughts. The song rocks hard—but there’s Finn’s nasal speech-singing drone squarely in the middle of the mix. The video, too, is stripped bare. No special effects, no gimmicks—just grown men dressed up as priests and pool boys, battling for the attention of a woman in front of an abandoned desert hotel. It is wonderful...