Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abrasive and bumptious, often irritating Capitol Hill Pooh-Bahs, and some White House aides, whose help he needs most. Yet a smile usually plays at the edges of his mouth, and his deep laughter is disarming. If he lacks compassion for his overworked aides, cursing their failures, they at least know he pushes himself even harder. And only a few cynical civil servants claim that his passion for publicity shows that a desire for self-promotion overrides his genuine concern for society's vulnerable children, the aged and the handicapped, whom his department is pledged to help...
...either by means of a hearing aid, by reading lips or by reading an interpreter's signs. If you are speaking with a person who is hard of hearing, it might be advisable to ask what he finds most audible. Talking with food, gum or a cigarette in your mouth makes it very difficult for another person to read your lips. If you are addressing a deaf person, it is polite to face him and not his interpreter...
Opening her mouth so wide that the pink of her gums shows, Mae West taps her teeth with her fingernails. "See that," she says proudly. "All my own. Not a false one there." Then, holding out her arms so that her wrists protrude from her jacket, she adds, "I've never had any face lifts either. You can tell by my hands and wrists. They can't operate on your hands. I've never had anything done, and I look the way I did when I was 22." You can't argue with a lady...
...like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It was not as though I wanted to write them." Compulsively, he kept on. Not until age 47, when Waiting for Godot created a sensation on the Paris stage, did Beckett escape a hand-to-mouth existence...
...songs." Someone to Lay Down Beside Me was written after watching the afternoon soaps. The lyric took 20 minutes, but usually it all comes a lot harder than that. Says Bonoff: "I'll play the melody over and over, and words will just come out of my mouth. When I feel they're good, I write them down." After a while she started going back to the Troubadour, trying out her new material. She also played a tape of Lose Again for Ronstadt, who took six months to decide on the song. "Hey, you know that...