Word: throated
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...other landmark. His mouth has the patient downturn of one who has endured flood and drought, and can survive this occasion too. When he speaks to the overflow audience, resolutely ignoring the mike, his parched hills-and-hollows drawl has the rasp of red dust in the throat on a July afternoon...
...metaphorical point whose truth is poetic. The ruckus has little to do with such niceties of debate, however. It centers on the generous amounts of sex and violence with which The Romans was staged. Bad enough, for fainthearts in the audience, that the first act contains a lynching, a throat cutting and assorted acts of bloody roughhouse. It also features three Celts bounding around the vast stage of the Olivier Theater in nothing but their birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter...
...larger crowds of mostly women waited in line to see the pornographic film "Debbie Does Dallas," sponsored by the programming board. The board, responsible for scheduling student activities, had scheduled "Deep Throat" to run, but because of Middlesex County Laws ruling the movie obscene, the student group could not run the movie without the risk of legal prosecution. "We saw what happened at Harvard when they showed the movie," Bill Mandell, the head of the group said yesterday...
Last year two Harvard juniors were arrested after a heavily-protested playing of "Deep Throat" in the Quincy house dining hall...
...transcendent performances and occasional moments of mercurial passion, A Lesson from Aloes is curiously stillborn. Fugard relies far too relentlessly on talk, the inspissated venom of the impotent. It is as if his cha acters were constantly grappling fate at the tonsils, rather than grabbing it by the throat...