Word: throated
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Phaedra, wife of Theseus, spurned and disgraced, twists and writhes in an agony of incestuous love for her stepson Hippolytus. Loosening a white silk sash at her waist, she knots it around her throat, pulls it tight, then falls to the ground in a lifeless swoon, her hair spilling in an orange cloud over her crimson robes. On a balcony overhead, a chorus splits the air with a rising lament-a sort of aural locust swarm-followed by a series of immense, loud gong-tones...
...model liberal, upholding the life of the mind and responsibility to the commonweal. By night he juggles his "family" of six girl friends. Most of the girls have an illustrative neurosis. But after more than 100 pages of Kovell's describing his curative powers in tedious Deep Throat detail, it is time to reconsider H.L. Mencken's endorsement of monogamy as convenient and hygienic...
...security precautions. Sample: "I've never been frisked so many times. Not that I mind-it's cheaper than a massage parlor." Such was the spectacle of security men literally tripping over one another that the audience roared when Hope joked: "I passed a tree and it cleared its throat...
...crackers. Smoke from pipes, cigars, and cigarettes curls gracefully from the lips of the smokers to the thin blue cloud which obscures the ceiling. Thayer, our inimitable Billy, or a year later, Faulkner, is trolling a rollicking song, and at the proper intervals the chorus from every editorial throat swells out upon the night with more of power than of acuracy, and word goes from one late passer by to another that tonight The Crimson is having a punch...
Last year the A/2 Hong Kong strain erupted in the U.S., causing widespread absenteeism in schools, offices and factories. Now a new bug called the London flu-because it was first isolated as a distinct strain there last year-is causing the familiar sniffles, coughing, sore throat, headache and fever in many parts...