Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid by the mills, textile prices would fall and the consumer would benefit. This entirely ignored the fact that the consumer is also a taxpayer-and anyway, it hasn't worked out. So far, the textile industry has received a mouth-watering $329 million in subsidies; payments have even gone to prisons whose convicts work at weaving. Textile industry profits have soared to their highest level since Korea. But there has been no dramatic drop in wholesale or retail textile prices. For example, the Agriculture Department recently reported that the price of a heavy cotton union suit has risen...
...smile, her teeth end in saws like a child's, the color of her hair is indistinctly reddish-blondish-brown. Her eyes can be hopeful and occasionally serene, but they kindle smaller fires in the imagination than do the dark circles under them. There is desperation in her mouth, especially when she smiles, always when she laughs. Her face is an album of experience and disappointment, and its imperfections and cares are the signature of her humanity. She may look like any woman, but she is every woman...
...flesh-colored net) and, for two years, Shaw's Pygmalion. She had already begun taking parts in small films, shooting all day, then racing to the theater for the show at night. The word was that Moreau was completely unphotogenic-the nose and ears too small, the mouth too thick, the body nothing special. By the time Director Louis Malle saw her in the Paris stage production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and asked her to star in his first film, Moreau had 20 forgettable films behind her. "Nine years of bad films...
Louis Beer '66 mashed twelve pancakes together, spent 20 seconds kneading them into a ball, managed to wedge the spongy mass into his mouth, waited till time was up, and suddenly bolted towards the men's room. Thus ended the International House of Pancakes' Boston Area Pancake Eating Contest...
Those last twelve pancakes made all the difference, as Beer and his Radcliffe teammate, Patience Carden '66, out stuffed a team from Brandeis, 150-139, in the half-hour batter battle. Beer's personal achievement--119 pancakes consumed or inserted entirely into his mouth--set a Harvard record, but it was far short of the 248 consumed last year by John Henry, a 6 ft., 5 in, 240-pound, Boston University football tackle...