Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIKE many portraitists, John Singer Sargent had to endure the pique of sitters who did not like the results. A portrait, he once said, is a painting "with a little something wrong about the mouth...
...Mouth. Finally Honeywell settled on the astronaut's mouth. Lip and tongue motions might do the job, but there is not much room in a space helmet, and extra equipment placed there would probably interfere with necessary speech over the radio. And the Honeywell men had a strong hunch that most astronauts would object to apparatus hitched to their lips or tongue...
...Maurice Edelman, Member of Parliament for North Coventry, pretends to tell the reader what actually transpires in the murky corridors of power. Nothing if not partisan, Laborite Edelman has posited a Tory Prime Minister. Most British readers seem convinced that his stuff comes straight from the lion's mouth -in recent months they have had a high old time trying to figure out Who's Who in his cast of characters. U.S. readers will mildly enjoy the transatlantic tattle...
...astounding fact is that 85% of the world's supply of this capitalist treat comes from the Caspian Sea, and all Caspian sturgeon breed in a single 1,000-acre sand-and-gravel spawning ground near the mouth of Russia's Volga River-even those caught in Iranian waters. An article in Russia's highbrow literary newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, signed by a group of intellectuals that included eight biologists, contained a dire warning that the completion of a projected hydroelectric power station would reduce the spawning grounds to a mere 22 acres...
...cutting deeper and deeper inside the human skull, but the floor of the brain box, where the patient's tumor was growing, has remained virtually inviolate. Nerves, arteries and other vital parts of the anatomy are all crammed into that small central sanctuary behind the nose and mouth. There they rise through openings in the floor of the skull and reach toward the brain above (see diagram). So complex is the collection of vital mechanisms, it has defied generations of neurosurgeons, and the young man seemed doomed...