Word: throatedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect your heart to leap into your throat at this Dracula. More likely, it will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...
College campuses are dead these days, they tell us. Cut-throat careerism, apathy, and a return to the '50s tend to be the catchwords of the campus sociologist who flock to the pages of national media...
...tortuous, difficult poems that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, Lowell's books were devoted to a ceaseless self-scrutiny. The glimpses of his private world could be harrowing. "I hear/ my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,/ as if my hand were at its throat," he confessed in Skunk Hour, a famous testament to his dark inner life. It was an outwardly tempestuous life as well. He was a Roman Catholic convert in his 20s-he later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World...
...Resentments have erupted in the past to the extent that the former tribal council president wrote a bitter and a somewhat hysterical letter to the Vineyard Gazette, the leading newspaper of Martha's Vineyard, accusing the present tribal leaders of placing a deer head with a knife in its throat in her mailbox. The leaders' response in the newspaper ignored the accusations but leaders subsequently hinted that the former president put the deer head in the mailbox herself...
DIED. Jean Hagen, 54, stage, screen and TV actress best remembered for her role as Danny Thomas' wife in the TV series Make Room for Daddy; of throat cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Hagen started her career in daytime radio serials, then moved on to Broadway (Ghosts, Born Yesterday) and Hollywood (the fading star in Singin' in the Rain...