Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humble screenwriter, I must take exception to your charge of plagiarism. The "run of dialogue" stolen from Jack Benny's mouth did not appear in the original screenplay of Waterhole #3 [Oct. 20]; it oppressed my shell-like ears for the first time at the press preview at Paramount Studios. Now I'm sure you must realize that an original screenplay goes through any number of "improvements" at the hands of its producers (three in this case), directors (I counted at least five the time I sneaked on the set), and stars. Therefore, I pass the mantle...
...shows off his forensic marksmanship in a weekly TV debate called Firing Line, on which he confronts his adversaries with a polysyllabic vocabulary and an arsenal of intimidating grimaces. Does the occasion call for an eyebrow lifted in disdain, a mouth drawn down in disbelief, a popeyed leer of triumph at a point well scored? Buckley performs on cue. At a time when most TV performers play down to their audience, Buckley remains Buckley, and his program is all the more engaging...
...highly readable. It is still amusing to hear, in Woolf's tone of melancholy malice, how "Tom" Eliot confessed that he had "behaved like a priggish, pompous little ass" on a weekend. And it is still poignant to learn that Sigmund Freud, ravaged by terminal cancer of the mouth and giving the appearance of "a half-extinct volcano," presented Virginia Woolf with a flower...
...problem bothers Rich, though. "In Poland," he explains, "a player who claps and yells during a game is considered a big-mouth. Here you're supposed to make noise to show team spirit, and this is hard for me to do. One of the coaches said to me last week, 'Richie, why don't you should? The kids will think you don't want to play ball.' So I am trying to learn, but meanwhile I hope my teammates don't misunderstand my actions...
...served by solitary, gutted souls but by an institution. There is so little poetry in the CIA, so much that is pedestrian and mean that no one but George could dare to attribute cosmic force to it. He carried it off though. He always had a cigarette in his mouth when he said it and tilted his head back waiting for the smoke to curl up over his face and the light to shine on the moistening high forehead. George was very conscious of the shameless theatricality of the pose. He practiced it, just as he practiced a Hemmingwayesque clumsiness...