Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore fired a shot from the box, but a Princeton defender made the save, deflecting the ball from the mouth of the goal. Stewart, however claimed the rebound and put home the shot, sealing Harvard's 100th victory this decade...
Once trained, Haynie began to publicize her debut party through word of mouth, and by distributing flyers to friends, classmates and acquaintances...
...Every time Dwayne puts a pistol in his mouth, flirting with the thought of suicide, the audience can't help but wish for him to pull the trigger--at least to end his escalating insanity along with the audience's suffering. Each time, he is interrupted, leaving the audience with no choice but to hold on (just barely) until the end. Even then, the climax of the story, which occurs when Dwayne meets Kilgore in a hotel bar, does nothing but confuse the audience even more. Dwayne comes to believe that he is a character in one of Kilgore...
Robbie Feaver (pronounced favor) practices common law--the more common the better. Both cynic and self-deluding romantic, Feaver is Turow's most expansive creation. He has the needy personality of a Saul Bellow big shot and the clever mouth of an Elmore Leonard punk. Both traits come in handy when Feaver is arrested for paying off judges and decides (in about a minute and a half) that rather than go to prison, he will accept the Federal Government's deal and help cage the errant magistrates...
...resists and bends his rod into a bow, like the Zen archer's. When he pulls in the fish, it wriggles under the arc of the bow before he moves it toward his hand. The trout looks up at him in desperate wonder. He reaches for its mouth and sets it free...