Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within the year turn the island from a British crown colony into an independent republic. In their whitewashed coffee shops Greek Cypriots frowned at Article 22 of the agreement, which forbids them ever again to demand enosis (union with Greece). "We shall have to hear about it from the mouth of Makarios," said one coffee drinker. "From him we shall learn if it is good...
...foamed at the mouth a bit. Obviously, some sort of fit was on him again...
Considerably sprucer than when he waddled through his filmed portrait of the artist (Joyce Cary's madcap Gulley Jimson) as an old sot, Cinemactor Sir Alec Guinness beamed sedately at a kind word from Princess Margaret at a royal film performance of The Horse's Mouth. Down the line, spinach-maned Chanteuse Juliette Greco and Cinemactress Peggy (Cash on Delivery) Cummins awaited the royal pleasure...
...kind of guy who could find breathing room in a sealed bank vault. Tough as Mike Hammer, suave as Peter Gunn, canny as the D.A.'s Man, Bold Venture's hero digs gems out of camellia buds, teeth out of the other guy's mouth and dames out of the pad. Before the show had its first airing last month, its sunny, sexy sadism had attracted more than too TV stations. Yet Bold Venture has no network and will never know the mingled joy of a national Nielsen rating. Like many of TV's adventure series...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a faith healer who suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions...