Word: throated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While preparing for the opening curtain of La Gioconda at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, Tenor Richard Tucker suddenly noticed an air-conditioned chill. "Turn it off," he complained; the cool air, he said, would freeze his throat. But of course, said the impresario-and sotto voce told his assistant to leave it on. All through the first two acts, Tucker's anger mounted. Finally, just before the third act he announced: "Unless the air conditioning is turned off, I do not sing a note!" Someone mentioned that the audience might leave. "Let them!" Tucker roared. "They must...
...ghetto then and you left it and turned it over to me, what do you think happened to it? Do the blacks own the buildings now? No, they don't, and when they do and they overutilize them the Department of Buildings moves in and cuts their throat while the landlord next door is an absentee landlord and they can't find him and his building deteriorates." I said to him: "You've exploited, that's what you've done, you've exploited the people for a long time. Give them a chance...
There was no way to find comfort. Liquor was out, since one nip of frigid high-proof alcohol although still liquid would freeze the mouth and throat and cause almost instant death. Swaddled in layer upon layer of goosedown and fur, the snowmobilers looked as bulky as brown bears. One driver rigged his wife's electric hair dryer into his helmet and face mask for added warmth. But nothing seemed to help much. On the second day the temperature dropped to 70° below zero. As the snowmobilers plowed ahead through Moose Creek and the village of North Pole...
...more highly placed than a marine sergeant. Huong had tossed out the previous education minister after discovering that scholarships to universities abroad, which carry built-in exemptions from military duty, were being sold to rich men's sons instead of awarded on merit. Tri, an ear-nose-and-throat specialist and plastic surgeon who had been teaching at the National Medical School, accepted Huong's charge to clean up the scandal. He apparently was making progress. He had been threatened four times by telephone as well as in several unsigned letters...
...enough to present the issues of today with tongue-in-cheek or heart-in-throat and expect the audience to react automatically. But this is primarily what the Light Company does. We see slides of Agnew and we are supposed to guffaw; we see slides of Vietnam bloodshed and we are supposed to shudder. We've seen this all before many times, and by now we have hardened to it. The theatre will have to sneak up from behind and twist our funny bones or club us on our heads to get the laugh or the cringe...