Word: nasalized
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...have hit the road with a touring company of the musical Coco, but, fumed Katharine Hepburn, she has not been reduced to selling pickled herring for a living. Charging that the makers of Vita products had been imitating her distinctively nasal tones in radio commercials, the actress sued the herring marinaters and their advertising agency, Solow/Wexton, Inc., for $4,000,000 in damages. What they had done, said Hepburn, was to lead her fans to think that she had "stooped to perform below her class, stature, prestige and prominence...
...then a few bits gleam. Hoffman's sluggish nasal metabolism is still amusing if familiar; Barbara Harris has a few moving moments as an auditioning singer with only three good notes; and the late David Burns is the archetypal Jewish father who seems to have sired every writer from Philip Roth to Erich Segal. But that troupe would be funny reading subway signs. Maybe more...
...have Eileen Heckart working for him in the role of Beatrice. Miss Heckart is one of this country's finest and most often wasted actresses, and this is one of the few occasions I have seen her in a part worthy of her talents. Her gawky physique and nasal delivery are perfect means for presenting the character's uneasy balance of self-assurance and paranoia. When, in the second act, one of the daughters forces her mother to confront her own horrible past. Miss Heckart reveals Beatrice's long repressed wounds with a low-keyed bitterness that is devastating...
...Here I have a cue card for an early Hitler speech," the auctioneer announced in his nasal Bavarian accent. "The words that Hitler penciled on it repeat the pattern to be followed in his harangue: 'November 1918-Criminals-The Political Situation Today-Our Irrevocable Demands-The Coming Elections-Our Candidates-Our Tactics-The Jews.' " Bidding in the stuffy auction room on Munich's fashionable Maximilianstrasse started briskly. The scruffy cue card was quickly knocked down to a broker acting on behalf of an anonymous British collector. Price...
...COURSE, the Steins eventually do leave; the buoyancy of their presence, made possible by Rae Allan's Streisand-like comic timing and Bill Macy's nasal, controlled delivery, contributes joy to this spectacle of lives still tawdry and depressing, but not really worth watching if it had been limited to Anna's nightmares of mother guppies consuming their young, puppies being crushed by giant trucks or, for that matter, Catherine's suppressed nymphomania. Julie Harris as the Captain's wife in Reflections in a Golden Eye, to my mind, patented the whole type of the skinny schizoid, and her mannerisms...