Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once. Mama isn't fooled by much, and so she undertook, with suspicious curling about her mouth, to tell Merilee the following: ". . . and those hippic girls you know, they're such dope fiends they get so hopped up on their dope you know what they do? they forget their own little babies and leave them in the streets that's what they do you know...
...only I could find one," Sam said, mouth full of a homebaked fig wheat cookie Deirdre had slipped...
Harkening to the whisper of the sea wind in the rigging of his Berkshire cabin, Herman seized his quill, scrunched his watery-blue trippy oceanic eyes, put the tip of his beard in his mouth and wrote: "Woe to him that seeks to please rather than to appall!" over and over he wrote down one piece of foolscap right after another...
...Oklahoma accent and a square jaw like one Merilee once knew. As they near the Greyhound Station in San Bernadino, she asks if she can kiss him goodbye. Doubtfully he says don't mind if you do. They are at a stoplight. Merilee leans over Girl and her sweet mouth covers the man's, drawing strength and breath and everlasting resolution from him. He is startled and the cars behind him are tooting their horns. "What was that all about, hon?" he asks...
Kaplan maintains that stage fright derives from "all levels of psychosexual development." He points to the anxious adult's tendency to touch his nose or mouth or chin, acts rooted in the infant's use of its own hand as a source of physical comfort when its mother -its source of sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers...