Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway musical hit -- it has no polish and a pushy way with a gag -- but the movie sneaks up on you, about as subtly as Audrey II. The songs are neat pastiches of '60s pop. The plant is an animatronic wonder, all blue gums, naughty tendrils and mighty mouth. Moranis and Greene make for a comely-homely pair of thwarted lovers, and Martin is his hilarious self, libeling all dentists who had just managed to forget Marathon Man. Then Bill Murray shows up as the perfect dental patient, sublime masochist to Martin's cheerful sadist, and strolls away with...
...asserting that the model for Da Vinci's masterpiece was Leonardo himself. In the January issue of Art & Antiques, Schwartz explains that she used a new computer-model program to juxtapose the famous painting with Leonardo's only known self-portrait. Writes Schwartz: "The relative locations of the nose, mouth, chin, eyes and forehead in one precisely matched the other." A number of art experts, however, remain unconvinced. Says Columbia University Art Historian James Beck: "As sure as the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not Da Vinci in drag...
...concept of the store is to "scoop it, bag it, tie it, mark it, and can it," said Barnett. After making, no doubt, many painstaking decisions, shoppers fill containers such as boxes, baskets, and tins with the mouth-watering comestibles of their choice...
...resource like the free public library, "Hundreds of scholars then come into the field who are writing . dissertations, monographs, biographies -- all sorts of things -- and for each one they want to have a little reinforcement, a little supplement; they want to have a word straight from the horse's mouth. So they come to me and say, 'Well, you are the horse -- won't you please share your memories? Won't you please answer this little questionnaire of five single-spaced typed pages?' or, 'Won't you let us put your memories on tape?' There is no enrichment from this...
...says, "is turning down their volume and melding with what we've got -- and lemme tell ya', honey, we ain't got one- tenth what they do. I've gone to see Carole and Mark (the lead tenor) in recital. When they open up, your heart comes into your mouth and tears come into your eyes and you think, My God, I know this person...