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...accuse Watson of restraint in his portrayal. In the impossible scene where Richard woos Lady Anne over the corpse of her husband, he knocks her to the ground; when she spits in his face, he licks her saliva (Patricia Peardon's monotonous delivery is no help to this scene). At one point his malformed hand spastically grabs his cross and must be pried off with the other. While Hastings is being beheaded he gnaws on a chicken leg. After Tyrrel reports carrying out his killings as ordered, Richard puts on a brief weeping fit. And on the eve of battle...
...evasive and insecure in his countenance and bearing saps all conviction from his attempts to play parts like Hamlet and Henry V. His "Once more unto the breach, dear friends" and St. Crispin's Day ("we happy few") speeches are not plunges of passion but sputterings of saliva...
...which is being posted throughout the University and distributed by the Health Services, warns that wearing lenses is "not without some risk of injury." People wearing lenses more than eight to ten hours per day "eventually get into trouble with corneal abrasions," according to the bulletin. Wetting lenses with saliva may lead to infection and "should never be practiced...
...most surgeons and all patients hate it. It is inserted through the nose, which is most uncomfortable, and the inflated balloon itself is painful. If left in place too long, the balloon can become ulcer-producing, so it must be deflated after about 24 hours. The patient cannot swallow saliva or other secretions, so a cut is usually made into the windpipe for drainage. Understandably, the tube is used only in case of real emergencies...
Symbol of Victory. The years of the Latin American revolution were at hand. One of the first inklings of the deep and dangerous emotions brewing in Latin America came in 1958, when Vice President Richard Nixon was nearly killed under a rain of saliva, stones and sticks during a visit to Caracas. The U.S. was shocked, frightened, incredulous at such fierce hatred from a supposedly Good Neighbor. A few months later, Fidel Castro and his followers swept out of the hills of Oriente province in Cuba and overthrew the cruel regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. No sooner had he taken...