Word: throated
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...Alley tune that had been written for pop songbird Kay Starr. The source of Cline's material hardly mattered. She made it all seem part of a thrilling emotional biography, drawing out a note until it was exhausted, then punctuating it with a catch in her throat that sounded like the small sob of a strong woman...
Several other Harvard teaching hospitals did well in individual specialties. The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary won first in otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat). The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was third for cancer diagnosis and treatment. McLean Hospital placed third for psychiatry. Beth Israel was fifth in geriatrics. And Children's Hospital won first place in pediatrics, including care of adolescents...
...colds, think zinc. A study finds that sufferers who begin to pop a kind of ZINC LOZENGE (gluconate glycine) within 24 hours of symptoms get over their sniffles and sore throat three days sooner than those who suck on a placebo. Possible side effects: nausea and a bad taste...
...tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged women, and he is very good at it. Alas, however, his latest conquest has been found dead, with the marks of large hands on her throat...
...there is something deceptively buoyant and elastic about the way a vault appears to unfold on TV. But to see it from 50 ft. away is to understand that the vault is a brutish thing. The poles, especially the ones Bubka uses, are as stiff as lampposts, and their throat-catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway, is that he makes the transformation from visceral thunk at the jump's base to airy finesse at its apogee look effortless. At the last second, he offers the bar a crisp...