Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowingly when I have done no reading and am not even sure I am in the right class. And, finally, I have gained great wisdom from my fellow students, a point no better illustrated than in a comment made one day by a classmate known to me as Steamshovel Mouth...
...seems removed from such mad scenes. Like George Smiley, the most interesting character of his later years, he is more of a reactor than an initiator, an amused but always clear-eyed observer. Part of that ironic aloofness may come from his childhood. His mother lived from hand to mouth, and he never knew who his father was. He was forced to adapt, and he has been doing that ever since, making a brilliant career out of pouring himself into a myriad of molds. He is now a little startled, however, to discover some of his mannerisms...
Nearly everyone on this set seems to have an entertainingly mean mouth. The old director proves a match for his son when it comes to exchanging insults: "Some people are brought up in poverty," he notes casually, "and they become cultivated people. Others grow up spoiled rotten with luxury and become guttersnipes." And when Dongan Lowndes, who has fallen heavily off the wagon, says that "the world can get on quite well" without a film version of his novel, Walker offers a laconic thought: "If we get into what the world can do without . . . God knows where...
...Marcos' jails. "I experienced kicking, boxing and mauling," said Danilo dela Fuente, 36, a labor organizer who was among the first to be released. "My head was banged against a concrete wall. They put a gun to my temple and played Russian roulette. They put it in my mouth and twisted it. Once I was blindfolded for 17 hours, and they would whisper, 'You will be killed tonight.' " The new Aquino administration is considering the establishment of a presidential commission to investigate political assassinations and unexplained disappearances during the Marcos...
...free speech is not a substanceless concept that we mouth whenever we want to prove that, yes, we really are democrats with a small "d." Free speech is the last defense of the just, for it is always the less popular, less acceptable opinion that gets quashed when freedom of expression is restricted...