The serial killer stands on high, his cut-throat razor flashing silver, as he swears to avenge the injustices he has suffered.
No one seems to be sure whether the culprit was the tracheostomy, now just a silver line at the case of his throat, around which his chest hair has grown back and where toast crumbs gather, or the five months of disordered consciousness (for those not in the trade, think coma-with-eyes-open) in which his throat muscles were dormant and subsequently atrophied.
She laughs, rattling the collection of silver chains and charms around a well-tanned throat ("laying out," or tanning, is another no-no she enjoys).
Wonder's makeup assistant, Val Williams, was laying out on a cloth a long silver vaporizer containing Asiatic Styrax, which Wonder uses onstage as a throat spray, and a small brown bag of root ginger from a herbalist in Los Angeles.
The fittings were as elaborate as the furniture: the tap for one of the guest washstands was in the form of a bronze bull from whose throat water poured into a sink inlaid with silver fish.
Another practitioner gave me a silver solution to boost my immune system and soothe my sore throat (not sure it did anything).
The chai burned my throat and I didn't know how to ask for a silver cup to pour it back and forth to cool it.
A Yiddish writer does a Hasidic dance, a philosopher delivers a wry deconstructive analysis, two lovers embrace, a diva sings Orlando Gibbons's setting: "The silver swan, who living had no note, / When death approached unlocked her silent throat".
While awaiting a third trial, Desha attempted suicide by slitting his throat, but doctors saved his life, reconnecting his severed windpipe with a silver tube.
On the rainy afternoon of Sunday, June 13 , 1948 Mr. Fein was at Yankee Stadium when Ruth, terminally ill with throat cancer, appeared at home plate in his old uniform at a ceremony marking the stadium's silver anniversary season.
