Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help of electronic stimulation has pinpointed some parts of the brain primarily responsible for controlling individual parts of the body as small as the tongue, fingers, or even eyelids, there is evidence of much overlap and feedback. Speech obviously demands control of movements of different parts of the mouth-but not until after the speaker has decided what words he wants to say. So both motor control and intellectual processes are involved...
...Green Bay's Hornung, noted mainly for his running, put the ball on the Giant 7 with a 21-yd. pass. The Packer line opened a truck-sized hole on the next play. And when it counted, Fullback Taylor, spitting blood from cuts inside his mouth, rumbled through for the score. "That was our only mistake," said the Giants later. Had they stopped Taylor, the result would have been the same. Whenever the Packer attack stalled, Guard Jerry Kramer booted a field goal-three in all-and Green Bay won, 16-7. Then the country boys headed back...
...painter of A Day has the soul of a businessman, and is so uninteresting a figure as to be tiresome even as a figure of fun; while the bad painter, Gully Jimson, of The Horse's Mouth has the soul of an artist, and is endlessly fascinating, Jimson the shambling, vital Bohemian is Guinness's triumph, aand what a pity it is that he has never found or been given another vehicle like this one: for here, surely, in the emotionally intricate realm of sentimental, subtle farce Guinness is at his very best. His Jimson is much funnier than...
Everything about The Horse's Mouth is deft, and much of it is truly remarkable. Guinnesss wrote the screenplay himself--basing it, of course, on Joyce Cary's novel--and this, certainly, is worthy of some note. The minor characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie...
Guinness brings to this role that Cary and Guinness have created for him a shuffling walk, a gravelly walk and a rusty charisma that is not to be resisted. No doubt you've all seen The Horse's Mouth, but that must have been almost three years ago. It is, at any rate, one movie to which I can unhesitatingly recommend a second visit...