Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to the seat formerly held by her husband James. After he died in June, she was appointed his successor by Wallace. She had a sympathy vote, but she also had a salty tongue that she stilled for the campaign. "The hardest thing to do is to keep your mouth shut," she admitted. She refused to debate her opponent, State Senator Donald Stewart, 38, a scrappy anti-Wallaceite who called her a "nice lady without any political experience." He scored an upset victory with 57% of the vote...
...hoped they would see that I was a good worker and give me a job," said Opat. Despite his purely volunteer status, the plant's personnel department paid him $218 for his work and, according to Opat, promised him a job if he would keep his mouth shut. After two weeks without further word from the plant, Opat began talking to the press. "No comment," said a Ford spokesman to all inquiries. And so far, no job for Opat either...
...however, an actress. As any viewer of Charlie's Angels well knows, Fawcett-Majors gets into serious trouble every time she opens her mouth to speak. Giggling and shrieking fits aside, her voice is flat and expressionless; her face cannot convey any emotion other than blissful self-absorption. In Somebody Killed Her Husband, her debut as a movie star, Fawcett-Majors does not expand her range -only her wardrobe. This film proves that she can look just as swell fully dressed as she did in the scanty outfits of her hit ABC series...
Alas, even if Ms. Greitzer's bill becomes law, it will be a while before the unwary diner-out is fully protected from Menuese-a peculiar subbranch of American Englihs, rich in mouth-watering adjectives, that is designed both to entice and to obfuscate. In the interests of consumerism, TIME herewith offers its own guide to some of the most common plats du jour found on U.S. restaurant menus-and what they really mean...
...Repression is always around the corner in America, it's always in the air, but I feel free..." He catches his words just as they leave his mouth and with the sense of humor and perspective that may be his saving grace, adds, "Well, you know what they say--'We are made to feel free by excercising a series of meaningless choices." He sighs. "They keep giving me these meaningless choices and I seem to be thriving...