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...doctor's housemaid in her 1990 novel Mary Reilly. The author reaches into a fictional past again, combining the stories of Ellen and Camille with an account of a notorious 19th century Louisiana "catwoman." When the body of this woman's plantation-owner husband was found with his throat ripped away, she was calmly playing the piano, her hands, dress and mouth covered with blood...
Bakhtiar and his personal secretary, Fouroush Katibeh, greeted the guests in a ground-floor salon. As soon as Katibeh went to the kitchen to make tea, one of the visitors leaped at Bakhtiar and, according to the autopsy report, struck a "mortal blow" to the throat. The secretary was similarly dispatched. With two knives grabbed from the kitchen, the assailants hacked at their victims' throats, chests and arms so savagely that a knife blade was broken. An hour after arriving, Boyerahmadi calmly collected the trio's passports, and the men drove off in an orange BMW. The guards failed...
Take the example of the autistic son of aHarvard professor. Before being admitted to BRI,the son used to put his hand down his throat andpull out pieces of his own esophagus, according toIsrael...
...only pain, as I can attest, from such a moment as Farrell's goal is the extremely hoarse throat I got from screaming and the sore feet I got when I stomped up and down on the floor...
...form to this day. To a society which stressed conformation, it spoke the language of individuality, and it exalted the aberrant. As our society becomes more secure in its heterogeneity, it is difficult to say if opera will find its cultural niche eroded. However, in The Queen's Throat, Wayne Koestenbaum seeks not to speculate on opera's future but to express the glory of opera's past and the drama of opera's present...