Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blind Tom, born to slave parents in 1849. Sightless and retarded, this exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly headline making -- except that Matthew was 29 in. high and had neither arms nor feet...
...with typical adolescent behavior. After one acrimonious argument, the author manages a desperate joke: "This family could be worse. Noah could be normal." But Noah is not. "It is no fun," Greenfeld notes, "to have him pull hair right out of your scalp and then put it in his mouth and swallow it." And Noah is growing physically, if not mentally. Someday soon the parents will not be able to control...
...book review "Searching for Norma Jeane" [January 26] left a sour taste in my mouth. The fact that Gloria Steinem is a woman (and the first) who has endeavored to write a major biography of Marilyn Monroe does, not give her some sort of credit of redressing a "sexist imbalance"--at least, not in substantive terms. Elizabeth L. Wurtzel correctly describes this biography--half photographs--as a "coffee table decoration". As such, the book continues a tradition of exploiting Monroe as an erotic object and as an object of greedy curiosity. On the other hand, one may consider this book...
...looks 50, and his gaunt face carries discolored scars from the falls and fights of three years on the streets. An upper incisor is missing, and his lower teeth jut outward against his lower lip, giving the impression that he can't close his mouth. His baggy pants are about five inches too long and when he walks, their frayed ends drag on the ground. "You know something?" he asks, holding up the bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace...
...past decade, Lisbon and Peking have agreed that Macao, the tiny Portuguese colony and gambler's Mecca at the mouth of the Pearl River, would eventually return to Chinese rule. A major hitch, however, has been the & inability of the two sides to fix a date for Portugal to relinquish its administration of the 6-sq.-mi. enclave...