Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms for the beelike clusters of photographers below him. But for the most part he remained motionless and impassive, his hands clamped on the stand. Behind him in the mezzanine his pretty wife stood, surrounded by applauding women, stared expressionlessly straight ahead. She licked her lips as if her mouth were dry. Then, finally, the uproar hushed and Alben Barkley began to speak-his vigorous, harsh, measured and practiced voice carrying to the farthest corners of the huge hall...
...Hitler obsession, he adds, lasted until the Führer's death. He happened to be taking his temperature when the news came. For exactly 17 minutes he lay there thinking, thermometer in mouth. When he rose, his temperature was fine; both Hitler and surrealism were dead phases, and Dali formulated his new line: "I believe that I am the savior of modern art, the only one capable of sublimating, integrating and rationalizing all the revolutionary experiences of modern times in the great classical tradition of realism and mysticism, which is the supreme and glorious mission of Spain...
Died. Eliezer Kaplan, 61, Deputy Prime Minister (since last month) of Israel, former Finance Minister, and one of the chief architects of the hand-to-mouth Israeli economic policy; of a heart attack during a vacation trip; in Genoa. Russian-born, he migrated to Palestine in 1923, after playing an active part in Zionist affairs in Russia and Czechoslovakia. In 1937 he negotiated the first international loan made to Zionism-a ?2,000,000 grant from Lloyds Bank of London...
...fleeced at 17 by a well-built gold digger: "Marcella loved me for 15 months and eleven contos ($5,500); nothing less." Nonetheless, he graduates from college "with complete faith in dark eyes and written constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known as the Theory of Human Editions: "Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum...
...body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another. If he partially opens his mouth, his nasal cavities may resonate like organ pipes. Sometimes his lower jaw vibrates so strongly that he has to grit his teeth to quiet it down. His ears get hot as they ride the waves; his nostrils get hot too. He may see only vague blurs as his eyeballs dance, and individual...