Word: mouthes
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...little mistake. I could hear Gary saying, "I was walking in Cambridge last week and this Harvard kid, who looked about as coordinated as a stalagmite, slipped on the ice, flipped six times, and swan dived into the wind-shield of a passing bus." So I cautiously kept my mouth shut...
...Covered it over with, qu'est-ce que c'est, piquante sauce? Mon amie, she says it's real good, but she don' finish it. She eats only half, maybe, leaves it on her plate. Poor little chicken, I think. Don' nobody love you? I taste it with my mouth and, I don't know, it ain't so bad. You show me a chicken, you know what, I'll eat it. I'll eat it right...
...drowsing lioness at midday stirs in the grasses under a flat-topped acacia tree. She yawns, and her mouth is an abrupt vision of medieval horrors, of ripping white spikes. And then the mouth closes and she is a smug, serene Victorian dowager. She complacently surveys her young, who sleep near by, and subsides again into her torpor...
...condoms, for example: "During withdrawal, hold the rim of the condom firmly against the penis so that the condom cannot slip off and no semen can escape." On fellatio: "The risk here is for the partner performing fellatio. It is common to have small cuts and sores in the mouth; even brushing your teeth can cause abrasions. This creates a route of entry for the virus in semen." On assessing personal risk: "Are you a man who has had sex with other men that involved the exchange of body fluids at any time since 1977? A single contact may have...
...with typical adolescent behavior. After one acrimonious argument, the author manages a desperate joke: "This family could be worse. Noah could be normal." But Noah is not. "It is no fun," Greenfeld notes, "to have him pull hair right out of your scalp and then put it in his mouth and swallow it." And Noah is growing physically, if not mentally. Someday soon the parents will not be able to control...