Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocks. Yet many are overwhelmed by them, and so they attempt to turn the pain itself into pleasure, i.e., they become psychic masochists. At the same time, humans learn in the nursery to fear the woman: it is she who takes the nipple out of the infant's mouth, she who disciplines him. Many persons grow up to run away from the fearful mother image, and at the same time unconsciously to court self-damage. The resort for both distorted tendencies is homosexuality...
...Hold something firmly between your teeth (or gums if you have no teeth) for ten minutes after going to bed but before settling to sleep." In each letter Family Doctor enclosed a wooden tongue depressor "very suitable" for holding between the teeth. The exercise strengthens muscles that hold the mouth closed, helps Britons to control snoring by keeping a stiff upper...
...show proceeds, certain scenes are repeated, certain songs are reprised. But from the outset, Take Me Along puts its trust in mood rather than momentum. Rather than shattering the funny bone, ravishing the ear or dazzling the eye, it just leaves a nice taste in the mouth...
Changed Scene. Outstanding among the young realists is 31-year-old John Bratby (TIME, March 12, 1956), who was called in to paint Gulley Jimson's big-footed canvases in the film version of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. "It's illogical and mad," Bratby confessed afterwards, "and springs from God knows where, but when the spotlight's on me, I feel enormously encouraged." Last week the spotlight was on Bratby again, with a show in London's Zwemmer Gallery of 28 new oils, turned out at a stupendous clip...
...practically nothing to do with beer, but thousands of readers blitzed Blitz with pleas for trees, gave the company a word-of-mouth circulation far beyond the cost of the ad. They pushed California's Paul Masson brandy by poking fun at bourbon ("Kentucky is a great place for breeding horses") and vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?''), helped their client boost champagne and brandy sales 46% in two years...