Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor has an exact ear for the boisterous and outrageous language that the Boston Irish use and his caricatures of prominent Bostonians, especially the one of a certain currently popular Lady Politician, "a great grotesque woman with a huge marshmallow face and a tiny bright red mouth," are subtle and droll...
...couldn't see through the blood, It streamed from under the thorns, around his nose, past his mouth, through his beard...
...decisions; I considered the financial and emotional consequences of my decision for those personally close to me and for myself; I consulted the teachings of Christ and Augustine and the writings of Franz Jaegerstadter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Franziskus Stratmann, O.P. [Dominicans]. I weighed all these considerations--shot off my mouth about each of them several times to friends and advisors and often got shot down--and finally I decided. I applied for CO status...
...abduction from the seraglio is the prettiest piece of acrobatic larceny since the heist scene in Topkapi, and in the last reel Director Ronald Neame (The Horse's Mouth) contrives five trick endings in rapid succession that finish the film with a rousing funfare...
...diaries, Nicolson gives deft descriptions of the people he met. George Bernard Shaw had "eyes as simple and unmalicious as those of an animal. He talks with a faintly effeminate voice and a soft brogue." Henry Ford's eyes "blaze and blink with faith and his large mouth twists sensitively into all variations of approval, obstinacy, pity and contempt...