she didn't sing like one," due to her "powerful contralto command[ing] attention." [177] Camille Paglia, writing for The New York Times , joked that even in Garland's adult life, "her petite frame literally throbbed with her huge voice," making it appear as though she were "at war with her own body." [180] Musical theater actress and director Donna Thomason opined that Garland was an "effective" performer because of her ability to make her singing voice "a natural extension of [her] speaking voice," an asset that Thomason believed all musical theater actors should at least strive to achieve
[162] A British specialist who had attended Garland's autopsy stated that she had nevertheless been living on borrowed time owing to cirrhosis, although a second autopsy conducted later reported no evidence of alcoholism or cirrhosis
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When the users decide to stop taking the pills, their appetites return with a vengeance, and the lost pounds are rapidly regained
