Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communists lurking in the State Department? Or of the liberal Senator who, when shot in his kitchen, bleeds the milk of human kindness? Or of Raymond's silky schemer of a mom (Angela Lansbury), who confides her plot to rule the world, then kisses her son full on the mouth...
Public Service Program Student Coordinator Roberta Kellman '88 says HAND and PBH also differ in their recruiting techniques. PBH posters in the Yard and holds open houses, while HAND advertises largely through word of mouth in the houses, Kellman says. Consequently, HAND is more closely tied to house and college life...
...polling to test a rival's vulnerabilities, then the devising of advertising slogans and one-liners for the candidate to exploit such weaknesses. Candidates call press conferences to exhibit their latest negative commercials, while consultants explain their psychological subtleties. Campaign strategists boast how they put in the candidate's mouth his most successful ad libs. It is as if acknowledging phoniness makes it honest...
...European decides he must talk to the African," said Achebe, "he must find one unspoiled by modern civilization, which tends to put inconvenient words in his mouth...
...with video cameras and tape recorders as the chief diagnostic tools. Upstairs, in a room decorated with children's posters of properly placed tongues, Brooks sits in front of a mirror. He puts a button-size plastic ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles...