Word: mouthes
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...plate with "In God We Trust" written above it in Arabic. The pizzas ($5, including a Coke) have thin crusts and fresh ingredients. "This is better," says Gbassage, who used to flip pizza dough at a Domino's in Stockton, California. Our Iraqi panel agrees. "The feeling in the mouth is good," says Qassim Wahim, 42, a clerk in the Ministry of Transport...
...plate with "In God We Trust" written above it in Arabic. The pizzas ($5, including a Coke) have thin crusts and fresh ingredients. "This is better," says Gbassage, who used to flip pizza dough at a Domino's in Stockton, California. Our Iraqi panel agrees. "The feeling in the mouth is good," says Qassim Wahim, 42, a clerk in the Ministry of Transport. Finally, there's the Pizzeria Napoli (pictured), its walls adorned with pictures of Rome and a certificate of appreciation "for serving the soldiers of the 32nd Military Police Company." The pizza ($5) is simple but delicious. "They...
...missionary but analytical. Using two main texts - Richard Klein's wonderfully suggestive book-length essay "Cigarettes Are Sublime," and Ross McElwee's documentary film "Bright Leaves" - I want to take a calm look at smoking, and its place in the culture, from the inside - from the smoker's hot mouth, wheezing heart, sooty lung and vivid, endlessly rationalizing brain...
...narcotic as contemplative. "The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the time of ordinary experience, a space and time of heightened attention that give rise to a feeling of transcendence, evoked through the ritual of fire, smoke, cinder connecting hands, lungs, breath, and mouth. It procures a little rush of infinity that alters perspectives, however slightly, and permits, albeit briefly, an ecstatic standing outside of oneself...
...exclaims Jim Carrey's frenetic alter ego in "The Mask"; and we know he is referring to a different -king. Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers, is getting down not the foreplay to lighting up? As Freud...