Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poured the milk down the sink, rinsed out the glass, and placed it mouth down in the drainer. She checked if there were any crumbs on the counter to attract ants and, finding a few by the toaster, brushed them with one hand into the other, and down the sink, after the milk. With a wet washcloth she erased a smear of jam she had noticed near the toaster. She switched off the counter lights and said, "I'm not drinking. I'm going...
...gonna Cody-fy the world!," Joel Grey promises in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Robert Altman's parable for the Old West that tells us how a handful of big-mouth lily-livers made up their own myths as they went along. Grey, the weazy sycophant behind Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, certainly found his modern counter-parts in the New York film critics crowd, a bunch that seems to want to "Altmanify" the world, and did their damndest to verbally contort this pleasant but rambling work into a masterpiece...
...fella in spring training, but now that the league has started, he's in a slump." Pressed for his views on the Playboy interview, Daley dodged, boasting of a fish he had caught. What then did the fish think? Cracked Daley: "If he hadn't opened his mouth, he wouldn't have gotten caught...
Kirbo is very much aware of the recurring complaint that Carter cannot keep his mouth shut, and, in fact, has urged the candidate to swallow some of his windy and revealing answers. But, he said with some resignation and humor, "That's Jimmy. He'll tell everything. He's come a long way being open. It may be political poison nationally, but it worked in Georgia." Stoic and cheerful as he sounded, Kirbo was a bit depressed, and back in Georgia he showed it-which was surprising...
...when Ford returned to Washington, trouble was waiting. Late in the week he was acutely embarrassed by the revelation that Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who has long suffered from galloping foot-in-the-mouth disease, had made some obscene and scatological remarks about what he genially referred to as "the coloreds." Ford promptly called Butz into the Oval Office and chewed him out, and Senator Robert Dole, the President's running mate, called the remarks "stupid" and "ill-conceived." G.O.P. Senator Edward Brooke, a black, demanded Butz's resignation. Jimmy Carter declared that Butz's crack...