Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manic bombast and sheer tactlessness, none of the world's leaders can compete with the big mouth of Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that...
Riggs' own secret weapon is his mouth, and Flamini reports that it produced a constant volley of phrases and clichés as varied as the spins, lobs and trick shots that Bobby uses so well on the court. "A lovable rogue, that's how you should portray me," Riggs told Flamini at one point. "I like that role." Flamini faced the lovable rogue on the tennis court one day, but did not last long; he fell during the warmup, badly twisting his ankle, and spent the rest of the time using a cane to keep up with...
Bobby has to win because his mouth has put him way out on the line; Billie Jean must avenge the legions of women in chains, real or imaginary, who consider Riggs a male of supernaturally loathsome porcinity. With the possible exception of a nude tag-team wrestling match pitting Burt Reynolds and Norman Mailer against Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer, it is scarcely conceivable that any other single athletic event could burlesque the issue so outrageously. A Las Vegas casino is chartering a plane to fly in show-biz folk and high rollers. Ms., the feminist magazine, plans a charter...
While still in his teens, Bobby became a steady winner, but he was never fully accepted by the tennis establishment. He was too blatant about breaking the amateur rule against taking illicit payments and too big in the mouth. He claims that he was at first denied a spot on the U.S. Davis Cup team, though his record warranted it. Later, after he had taken the national singles championship twice and swept Wimbledon in 1939 (singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles), he was still not accorded the respect that contemporaries like Don Budge and Fred Perry received. He just...
...THIS TIME I was spending most of my time with the girl who lived beneath me. She was small and squat with frizzy hair and with a grim tightness at the corners of her mouth, like the look of middle age. She was Jewish, from New York City--compulsive about studies, socially insecure, socially ambitious. She wanted to marry a rich Eastern preppie, and she had come to Harvard looking for him. And when she didn't find him she wanted to transfer to Wellesley. I think, now, that part of her attraction to me grew out of her thinking...