Word: hand-to-mouth
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...between a scream and a giggle. Now, with Knightriders, Romero has taken a bigger risk: he blends Arthurian legend with modern-day bikers-Excalibur meets Easy Rider-and dares the audience to laugh at the noble exploits of working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty ideals and hand-to-mouth reality as it journeys from one small town to another, exhibiting swordsmanship in battles where fellowship precariously reigns and only feelings get hurt. They are the most benign of outlaws; they embody the spirit of regional cinema...
...feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It was not as though I wanted to write them." Compulsively, he kept on. Not until age 47, when Waiting for Godot created a sensation on the Paris stage, did Beckett escape a hand-to-mouth existence...
...face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really preferable to a tax problem...
Simple Solution. Their hand-to-mouth existence results partly from new federal laws that, politically speaking, make fat cats almost an extinct species by limiting political contributions to $1,000 from each donor. More immediately responsible is congressional failure so far to rescue the Federal Election Commission from its court-imposed limbo. Under the new laws, the commission was to distribute federal funds to the candidates according to a simple formula: every dollar a candidate could raise in contributions of $250 or less would be matched by the Federal Government. In January, the Supreme Court held that the commission could...
After Manson's arrest in 1969, Squeaky took command of the clan and its hand-to-mouth living arrangements. With a handful of other followers, mostly women, she perched on the steps of the Los Angeles courthouse during the trial, shaved her head to protest his conviction and gouged an X into her forehead as a sign of loyalty. She later explained: "We have Xed ourselves out of this world." Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote in his book Helter Skelter that the mutilations became a ritual for new members, "complete to tasting the blood as it ran down their faces...