Jagger's outrageous clothes and pyrotechnics were also "in your face", with his huge mouth and animated walk on the ramp capturing the imagination of thousands who were seeing him for the first time.

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YouTube and the Internet have been doing this already, but music on Facebook will give the word-of-mouth phenomenon a huge leap forward.

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Dr. BORIS WORM (Assistant Professor, Marine Conservation Biology, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada): They have a huge head, a big mouth with which they can engulf their prey and then the rest of their body is a long tapering tail.

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Spotify created a huge demand for its free service, spread by word of mouth, in its first six months of its launch, but rapidly applied the tourniquet and steered users to paid-for packages ranging from 99p for a day to a tenner a month.

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The adorned skull of a tiny Borneo primate with huge eyes "looks so sweetly cuddly, " as she says, yet its mouth reveals razor-sharp teeth.

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Sitting about a half-inch lower on its suspension, and shrouding outrageous 20-inch alloys and Pirelli P Zeros in the wheel wells, the XKR-S looks like what it is: a huge, privileged brat, an upper-class lad with a bad attitude and mouth like a vulcanized black bass.

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Huge crowds have gathered around Courts Four and Five to watch the stars warming up ahead of today's mouth-watering matches.

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One of them was trying to speak, but his mouth was covered by a scarf and, anyway, his friend could not hear anything as he had huge ear muffs on.

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