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Aside from the throat, Montgomery also made significant advancements in several other subdivisions of otolaryngology, including the ears, head and neck...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Throat Surgeon Dead at 80 | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...adored by rank-and-file opera buffs, who gave him bravos for such roles as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Cavaradossi in Tosca. His competitiveness sometimes took a strange form; during Puccini's Turandot at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1961, he bit a soprano on the neck because she held a high note longer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 10, 2003 | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...business, but we are determined that it not turn into serious business. We devise a mock Napoleonic "N" with a laurel wreath around it for the neck of the bottle. On the label we poke fun at the usual corny hype on our competitors' bottles with Nomen Vide Optima Expecta ("See the Name, Expect the Best"), Tutto Naturale, and in place of a copyright notice, we have "Appellation Newman Controlee." As a spoof of businesses that tout their ancestry, our slogan is "Fine Foods Since February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Newman's Own Story | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

RICHARD: Talk about stupid things around your neck, what is that? [Thompson is wearing a fur collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Pouring On the Charm | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...Carlo, Giordano's Andrea Chenier and Puccini's Turandot. His muscular build and booming voice made him an ideal romantic lead opposite sopranos such as Maria Callas. Corelli liked to hold key notes for as long as possible. Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson claimed Corelli bit her on the neck during a 1961 Boston performance of Turandot because she outlasted him in the climactic note of a duet. (He denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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