Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mucus in his respiratory system--in his throat or sometimes deep in his lungs. A nurse holds a coughalator to his throat, which functions like a vacuum cleaner. When she removes the tubing to the ventilator, it sets off a high-pitched alarm, as in a pop-off. Then she puts in inhalers to help Reeve's lungs open and breathe...
...accept the fact that he was going to spend a long time in an institution. Because of his celebrity, he was given a single room, for which he was grateful, but it made him feel isolated from the other patients. Two security guards were posted outside. Reeve's first "pop-off" occurred in that room. A pop-off happens when the trach is not secure. Unless one is used to breathing off the vent, breathing is impossible...
...joke that from now on I would always check the footwear of the nurses to make sure they were wearing sneakers. I wouldn't want them to slip and fall on the way to the rescue. But the first time... trying to point with my head where the pop-off was...the feeling of helplessness. I've never been helpless...
...records), an audio collection of her TV appearances with Godfrey. A stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks the hottest country CD on Billboard's pop charts has been Blue, in which 13-year-old Texas phenom LeAnn Rimes does similarly in-Clined material, including the title song, which was written originally for the dead star. There's musical multiplicity in the country air: the invasion of the Patsy Clones...
These tributes fall short of cult creepiness because they are inspired by Cline's music, not by biographical eccentricities. Square-faced and tending to stoutness, Cline left no legacy of iconic beauty or notorious anecdotes. She was all voice, in the days when pop intersected with country. On her albums, swirling violins would blend with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight...