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Ferreri has set out with a fierce will to challenge audience sensibility, and his Rabelaisian romp establishes new levels of rauchy foul taste in art house--as distinct from 42nd Street--porn movie fare. In manner and matter, Ferreri is working on a level that the makers of "Deep Throat" could not --and would not--aspire to, but his movie's lifelines are decidedly pornographic...
...speechless, her hands were clutching at her chest, she was becoming faint and turning blue. What could he do? The symptoms were all too familiar to Prutting. He calmly advised his caller to lean the woman over a chair, pound her on the back and reach down her throat with his middle and index fingers to dislodge the obstruction. The doctor heard loud thumping sounds, and soon a relieved voice came back on the Line. "It was only a piece of beef," said the executive. "She's fine...
...food inhalation shows symptoms that are easy to recognize, if a doctor or bystander knows what to look for. The hapless diner is suddenly unable to breathe, talk or cough. A panicky struggle may ensue, as he tears at the lower throat or upper chest. He quickly becomes blue in the face and collapses to the floor or into his plate. Without proper help, death-from lack of oxygen-occurs in four or five minutes...
...called Choke Saver be kept at the ready in every restaurant. It has already been used by a city first-aid unit in Jacksonville, Fla., to save the lives of three victims. Using either his fingers or the Choke Saver, a clumsy amateur may bruise a victim's throat while wrestling with the obstructing clump of food. But, the Florida doctors note, "a sore throat is to be preferred to a dead patient...
...wreck, in the company of a young lady of dubious virtue. During one sleepless night, she looks out of her window at the spooky house across the yard and sees-or thinks she sees, or at least says she sees-a dead man sitting in an armchair with his throat cut. Later she sees light behind the house's rickety shutters and a woman's corpse in the same chair. The police are called, but they find nothing...