Ms. AMY WALTZ(ph) (American Home Mortgage, Bethesda, Maryland): I was pretty openmouthed, stammering, flabbergasted.

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But neither they nor the placid herbivores inspire anything close to awe, even with the aid of audience stimulants like surging symphonic music (by the shameless John Williams) and repeated closeups of wide-eyed, openmouthed actors.

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Instead, I imagined him calling the policeman a stupid idiot, a spineless coward, a sadist, a bastard, and I imagined the shock of the policemen the chief staring openmouthed, the other cellmates stunned at the audacity of the boy from the university.

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