Word: rasped
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...skin is pink, his eye is clear. The rasp-but not the power-is missing from his voice. His knee seems better, too. A safety railing was installed at the back of his podium last year, but when he gripped it at all in rehearsals last week, it was mostly to shake it with temperamental rage-that is, when the gravity of the crime did not actually set him jumping up & down with both feet...
Almost every other comic has nervously surrounded himself with elaborate props for his entry into television. Jimmy Durante brought only his nose, his piano, his rasp-voiced songs and patter, and sat down like an old friend in the televiewer's living room. Durante and TV were a long time getting together, but it was well worth the wait...
...them to the roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously so rasp and thrill; no one ever made standoffishness more come-hitherable...
...speaks in a modest (one kilowatt) voice, but entertains a devoted audience recruited mostly from Montreal's French-speaking east end. One night last week, listeners heard the announcer start off the 9 o'clock show with a recording by Chanteuse Yvette Giraud. Then with a brutal rasp the needle was knocked across the record and a harsh voice interrupted the program...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...