Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-proclaimed sexual aberrations. When Thomas finally walked away, the guru followed and shouted a string of obscenities at him. Mother, whose day is celebrated this week, seemed to have a prominent place in the epithets. Whereupon Thomas wheeled and clouted Ginsberg twice on his shrub-bordered mouth. "Ah, those were only words I was speaking!" cried Ginsberg. Replied Thomas in a hard, code-of-the-West drawl: "They may have been only words to you, Mr. Ginsberg, but out here they are fighting words...
...Constable. "The face of the world is totally changed for me," he told a friend. He wore mourning for the nine remaining years of his life. To assuage his sorrow, he turned to a sketch that he had made of the ruins of Hadleigh castle, which stood near the mouth of the Thames. In the completed painting, while the ruined castle becomes a monument to Constable's grief, the scudding clouds, the glistening rocks and the sparkling leaves display a fervent commitment to self-renewing life...
...language is that of a Scott Fitzgerald heroine, and rightly so. Ali (a childhood abbreviation of Alice) is a reasonable facsimile of Judy Jones in Winter Dreams, whose mouth gave a "continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality-balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes." Even more, she seems to be playing some endless version of Gatsby's Daisy, whose voice had "a singing compulsion, a whispered 'Listen,' a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next...
...banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute one eye winks, his shoulders shrug, his mouth gives a little downward grimace, and out comes the self-mocking voice of a Jewish comedian: "Oy, this hurts...
...this legend for years. These same people will say the picture business is closed up as tight as it ever was. They are sure the studio had Miss Turner under contract before they put her in a sweater and on a soda-fountain stool with a straw in her mouth--to be discovered...