Word: throated
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...those accustomed to Massachusetts politicians, the decision of this dovish David to challenge the presidential Goliath seems a strange one indeed. He lacks the jaunty grin of an Edward M. Kennedy; he does not pound the table with his first like a Francis X. Bellotti; and his throat does not issue the pious platitudes of a John A. Volpe...
...floor. "Weinstein wanted me to kill the boy but I wouldn't," said Hammell. Instead, they tried to revive him by holding spirits of ammonia under his nose and splashing him with apple cider. According to Hammell, Weinstein then poured the spirits of ammonia down Green's throat, causing him to go into convulsions...
...touches one button at her throat, and rigor mortis Slithers into his pockets, making everything there--keys, pen and secret love--stand...
...demonstrating her still top-rate abilities as a comedienne on television and encouraging the careers of her talented children. But she played the Palace again last summer, and that stint, while exhibiting her still vibrant showmanship, displayed only a shadow of the Garland voice: her famous catch-in-the-throat turned into mere hoarseness, and even her magnificent sense of pitch and timing occasionally failed her. This album is a shockingly honest record of her opening night last July. For those Garland fans who dote on her tragedy, it's full of ghoulish interest. For those who doted...
...opening curtain finds Scuba Duba's hero holding a huge scythe in the middle of a Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance...