Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything about him reflected sexuality--the restless, roving energy; the aggressive skills; fastball pitching; home run hitting; the speed with which he drove cars; the loud rich voice; the insatiable appetite; the constant need to placate his mouth with food, drink, a cigar, chewing gum, anything...He received absolute physical joy from cards, golf, bowling, punching...
...sexual drives (whose chief pleasure is paging through coffee-table books about ancient Greece) to a barely literate whirlwind of adolescent lust. Strang worships his horse-god every night and knows that his worship is accepted; he whips himself with a horse's whip, sets a bridle in his mouth, kisses the hooves of his god and licks the sweat off his face...
...that line, he gave the show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic...
Boldue drew first blood in the Michigan tilt, slipping home a perfect goal-mouth pass from linemate Dave Bell at 18:22 of the opening period. Boldue, assisted by Bell and Kevin Burke, scored again seven minutes into the second stanza, extending Harvard's lead...
...Cover-Up. Then Fitzpatrick switched his story again. He had granted probation, he said, because of a plea-bargaining arrangement made by the previous administration. That did it, Sprague says. "I knew he was lying. My choice was either to be honest and tell the truth or keep my mouth shut." It was really no contest. "I decided that instead of participating in my own mini-Watergate, I'd tell the truth, not cover up and not sit tight with my nice job." The next reporter who happened to call got quite a story. Sprague made it clear that...