Word: throatedly
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...neared these women it struck me that they did not look mysterious and alluring in their safsaris, as in Arabian Nights or in my fantasies. They looked anonymous and shapeless. Almost every woman gathered the folds of the robe at her throat with one hand and clutched an infant or a bag of vegetables with the other. Their identical, self-effacing garments (which, however, are not religiously sanctioned, and do not veil the face) and their burdened hands bespoke the modesty and servility which characterizes the Muslim woman everywhere...
...sort of reserve this little niche, this little corner of the sky, this little piece of the proverbial pie, for whatever the hell I, the writer-as-writer (Read: WRITER), want to write. Nobody, including you, has to read this. Nobody jams Hustler magazine down your throat every month, Mr. or Ms. Community Standards. Now I'm getting mad, so I'd better stop. (But let me tell you this--words like "vitiate," "template," "crenelated," "absolve," and "New York Review of Books" come to mind...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law who is currently defending Harry Reems, the star of "Deep Throat," against obscenity charges, agreed with this opinion...
...investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood until a source every bit as mysterious as the fabled "Deep Throat" of Watergate turned over the entire Verfassungsschutz file on Traube to Der Spiegel...
Inside the office door is the ever-typing secretary. After a few minutes of staring at a geranium, pretending you have something to do and clearing your throat, she notices...