Word: mouthes
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...keep him from lifting over his head, shot out in double fists as if he were clutching an out-of-control steering wheel. He shook hands and hugged his staff. He was smiling so broadly you could see the gold caps on the teeth at the back of his mouth. Cindy turned to the campaign's bus driver, whose presence the couple consider a lucky omen, and said, "You're never going home...
...something about them, this being the music column and all, except that I feel award shows naturally tend to reward the middlebrow rather than the spectacular. (Hello, Santana!) And the behind-the-scenes politics of major labels to win Grammys just leaves an odd taste in my mouth. I wonder if record labels send "for your consideration" copies of albums to Grammy voters in the same way studios give out comp tickets to movies...
...average age of patrons is 50, and it's the last place in Massachusetts, I'm convinced, where profanity and chain-smoking are not only tolerated but encouraged. No sentence spoken without using "motherfucker" can be taken seriously; no bettor without a Lucky Strike dangling from his mouth is respected. Some players are cool and rational and know how the pace in a particular race will break and where a given horse will fall in and bet accordingly; others scan the tote board for good odds or good numbers and convince themselves that they're investing their rent money wisely...
...genes that prescribed my shape, gave me five fingers on each hand and 32 teeth in my mouth, laid down my capacity for language and defined about half of my intellectual capacity. When I remember something, it is they that do it for me, switching on the neurochemical system that stores the memory...
...year-old male calf is playing with a long, stringy tuft of grass. He opens his mouth as if to eat it, but his trunk moves in the wrong direction, and the grass pokes him in the eye. Moss laughs. "He doesn't want to eat. He's too little," she says. "He's just practicing." After a few minutes, a 10-year-old female elephant walks toward us. She plops in front of the car and uses her trunk to hurl dust over her back. Crossing her back legs, she leans forward as if to kneel. Her tusks...