Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part of a swordfish, naturally, is his mouth. More often he is foul-hooked-in the dorsal fin, back or cheek-as he rolls around, batting the bait. But a foul hookup does nothing to impair his fighting ability...
...turned to Richard and purred: "It's awful, dear, but I'm afraid we just can't find anything nasty to say about her." As for the ever-cryptic Albee, he says: "One of my fondest memories is the bubble of spittle on Sandy's mouth toward the end of the picture...
...unpretentious restaurant in Manhattan's theater district, an unpretentious woman tucked a napkin in her dress and wolfed a hamburger lunch. Not that the dress was worth protecting; it was just another tent. After finishing, she wiped the napkin across her mouth. No need to freshen her lipstick; she wore no makeup. Then she strode out in her beat-up pumps-and as if on cue, heads turned, cars slowed, and a sailor rushed up at flank speed. "You're in the movies, aren't you?" he asked. "But I can't remember your name." Said...
...stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences gasping...
...same, she is no beauty, largely because of her mouth-or rather, the buck teeth that make her look like a young Eleanor Roosevelt. "I smile with my hand over my mouth," she explains, "so no one will see the spinach." Her figure, in the simile of one friend, "is like a cup of tea-all the sugar went to the bottom." Partly because of indiscriminate eating of heavy Russian food, she has lately swelled to 132 Ibs. (at 5 ft. 4| in.), twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into...