Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court. Of preaching and reaching and teaching. Of cheating and bleating. Of serving too fast. Of serving too slow. Of hitting the ball right at his female opponent. Of not hitting the ball right at his female opponent. Of bad tennis, bad sportsmanship and, above all, a bad mouth. Women who attend Gallwey's classes have no trouble recognizing the angry voice of Self 1: it is their husband. They are poor Self 2. Such descriptive phrases as "cow," "fat banana" and "pregnant elephant" can be heard on the most elegant courts. "Move your ass" appears...
...alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper lip, and sometimes the palate...
...Richard Fleischer's film The Prince and the Pauper. The actor needed plastic in his makeup plus padding on his body to effect the appropriate regal bearing. "My eyes are deep set; his were close to the surface," observed Heston. "My face is angular; his was square. My mouth is large; his was small. My nose is angular and broken; his was square and short." The makeup worked just fine in the end, noted the actor, "but we really had a great deal of distance...
...Monotheisms. Yet the Khazars and their relationship to Judaism are not news to scholars and historians. There is general agreement that during the early 7th century these pagan tribesmen established a kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas. Their capital was Itil, near present-day Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga...
...nearly 40. A doctor, he worked the night shift at the municipal clinic in the poor district of Clichy, attending to prostitutes and alcoholics and patching up men smashed in street fights. Nobody looked less like a novelist. "A big devil with an inscrutable face and a scornful mouth," he reminded acquaintances of "a cafe owner on holiday...