Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outraged by the yellow-peril charge, Rusk went to the unusual length of issuing a formal statement to challenge the accusation. "The Secretary wholly repudiates the effort to put into his mouth or into his mind the notion of the yellow peril," the statement began. His comments on the looming threat of a nuclear-armed China, it added, "have nothing to do with race...
...delighted that it can hardly wait to tell the story to the world press. The resulting headlines are expected to be a damaging blow to Soviet prestige in general and the KGB in particular. Last week, however, with an important new defector on its hands, the agency kept its mouth shut. It had nothing to say -not even to the State Department -when the West German government revealed that Evgeny Evgenievich Runge, who held the high rank of lieutenant colonel in the KGB, had made contact with the CIA in West Berlin and asked for asylum. Apparently piqued that Bonn...
...Appetite for food is suppressed completely during this time, and there is a compulsion for constant action. At first this activity is purposeful, say the researchers, but as the "run" progresses, it becomes ever more disorganized. The taker himself, others note, becomes increasingly agitated, often shaking, quivering, working his mouth incoherently...
...this maudlin bundle of bathos is Sandy Dennis. She draws laughs from tears. An accident-prone waif who bruises an eye, bangs a toe and burns a finger, she runs to the audience to be comforted. She flutters and stutters, and sentences spill out of her mouth like rag dolls losing their stuffing. By now, though, this little-girl-lost act is beginning to cloy, and Sandy Dennis is in danger of losing her acting momentum in mannerisms...
...conventional theatrical experience, the company has had directorial help from such top Broadway professionals as Arthur Penn and Joe Layton. Justifiably proud of their mimetic skills, the actors are living proof, on stage at least, that a word in the hand may sometimes be worth two in the mouth. Says Managing Director Hays: "They paint pictures in the air, and it is language...