Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading Pablo Picasso loud and clear. What a good laugh he's having at Chicago's expense [Sept. 23]. For who can look a gift horse in the mouth? "Unmistakably feminine" indeed!! The sculpture is obviously the head of a large male mandrill baboon-and in what better jungle could he make his home...
Erector Phrases. In answer to the Democratic slur that an actor can hardly open his mouth unless he has memorized someone else's script, Reagan and his staff emphasize that he writes all his own speeches. Given the swollen staffs of specialists that surround most campaigners nowadays, the endeavor seems anachronistic. Yet, true enough, Reagan sits day after day on his campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases...
...operatics that resemble polo more than Polo? What's more, the cutting looks as though it had been done by a Mongolian headsman; the dubbing is so wildly out of sync that occasionally a word spoken by one actor seems to come out of another actor's mouth; and the color print looks like a fresco restored with the assistance of Clorox...
...latin's, Monterey, Calif. Grand dishes, such as bull's head complete with apple in the mouth and eyes intact, and roast imperial Russian wild boar. Boar served only on several days' notice, at $14.75. Also $20-a-plate servings of Chateaubriand, served only to parties of ten or more...
...regularly introduced through mouth or lung in amounts greater than 1 mg. per day, lead can cause painful constipation, anemia, emaciation, loss of appetite, paralysis of the extremities, and ultimately death. And there is one more effect that interests Dr. Gilfillan most of all: enough lead can cause sterility in men, miscarriages and stillbirths among women. The Romans, says Gilfillan, especially the upper classes, knew little of lead's dangers, and they ingested more than enough of the metal to make trouble a certainty. Not only did Pliny the Elder counsel that "leaden and not bronze pots should...