Word: throated
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...constricted area, use unwieldy instruments up to a foot long, and exercise extreme caution for fear of removing or damaging healthy-and irreplaceable-vocal tissue. The patient, who must usually endure considerable post-operative pain, often has to forgo even the satisfaction of complaining; any talking may irritate his throat and delay his recovery. Now doctors at Boston University Medical Center are finding a way around both problems. They have found that a carbon-dioxide laser, which produces a high-intensity beam of invisible infra-red light, can quickly remove many polyps, cysts and cancers from vocal cords. Moreover...
Died. Jack Hawkins, 62, robust, husky-voiced British actor often cast in the role of a steadfast military man (Bridge on the River Kwai) or a true-blue police inspector (Gideon of Scotland Yard); following a long battle with throat cancer; in London. In 1966 Hawkins lost his larynx to cancer. Last April, hoping to regain his full voice, he volunteered to undergo an experimental procedure in Manhattan for the surgical implantation of an artificial voice-box, but his throat never healed...
...young Turk hammering at the walls, Levine has a mature attitude toward both audiences and music. He intelligently interprets contemporary music, but is not about to shove it down anybody's throat. "An audience is made up of people involved in other professions, and it's asking a lot of them to keep pace with the latest things in my art form," he says...
...imperfect state in which the play has come to us, Macbeth surmounts all obstacles and has the power to grip you like no other. I don't mean just its ability to engage the mind; the play has an almost corporeal existence, and can seize you by the throat and wring...
...surprising remarks from an octogenarian, except that the speaker happened to be Henry Miller, the granddaddy of the erotic novel (Tropic of Cancer). Skinflick Star Linda Lovelace, a fellow author (at 22 she has already written her autobiography) disagreed: "Sex was dead and films like Deep Throat are bringing it back to life...