Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goalie Peter Zurkow weathered Brown's violent attack with a number of fine saves. "Brown's favorite trick was to lob the ball just outside the penalty area in hopes of drawing me out of the goal's mouth," said Zurkow. "I fell for that a couple of times and they went around me or ran me over...
...questions Kramer fielded were mostly lickspittle stuff. (For the affair was not, it turned out, a bona fide press conference--the Crimson people were the only critics present--self-styled or otherwise.) It was one of the studio-sponsored get-togethers meant to spread word-of-mouth in big college areas. The questioners sounded like job-seekers; as I walked in, a young gentleman kneeling on the floor (there were some scattered chairs) asked: "How do you sell your films?" And Kramer replied that he had a treatment ready whenever he had a saleable package; that he'd recreate...
...name to please the non-Bakongo majority, Kinshasa last week officially rechristened the country the Zaire Republic, and the river the Zaire River. Originally, the word was the result of misunderstanding-or mispronunciation -on the part of a Portuguese naval captain, Diogo Cão, who sailed into the mouth of the river in 1482. In Kikongo, the local language, it was called the Mzadi, which means, naturally, "big water." The mangled word survived the centuries in the name of a town, Santo Antonio do Zaire, on the Angola side of the river, where Portugal still maintains a colonial government...
...last years, Piet Mondrian's own head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle frames, and the thin mouth joined with utmost precision to his beak of a nose by two engraved lines. It was the face of no compromise-austere and possessed by a forbidding moral rectitude. No artist ever looked more like his own work...
...popular, with more than a million copies sold. It evokes an instinctive materialism based more on the senses than the intellect, and the flesh becomes identified with the sensuous geography of his native country: "I have been marking your body's white atlas/ with crosses of fire./ My mouth was a spider which crossed, hiding itself./ In you, behind you, fearful, thirsty...