Word: snores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capra made a few passes and presto! 1) much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew...
...Atomic Pillow. After the Czech crisis, a number of people woke up (or said they did) to what the peace was. The talk about a Western Union in Europe, which had been droning off to a snore, buzzed up again. But what the Czech crisis mainly did in the West was to increase anti-Communist sentiment, of which there was a large unused surplus already at hand...
...Nose. Near Memphis, police heard a wheezy snore in the dark, ran it down, yanked Eddie Martin off the railroad tracks just before an express thundered...
...True snoring must be ... defined as, a coarse, low-pitched noise produced by vibrating soft tissues in the nasopharynx of a sleeping person." Sometimes snoring is caused by an abnormality of the breathing passages (like adenoids) which can often be corrected. The tough cases are the ones with "an essentially normal nose and throat" who just snore...
...sonic effect, he adds, is "due to a fluttering action produced by currents of air acting ... in a manner similar to the action of wind on a flag. . . . The snore tone is constant and depends on the length, density and flexibility of the moving parts.... Each soft palate and uvula must have its own individual 'flutter ratio...