Word: grin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was an audacious wall decoration: a large photograph of a broadly smiling Ronald Reagan, who had challenged Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. nomination. Moreover, the occupant of the office, Nixon's director of the Office of Management and Budget, often proudly pointed to both Reagan's grin and the handwritten inscription under it: "The smile is for real, thanks to you. In friendship and warm regards, Ron." Said the OMB boss to one visitor: "Now, there is a man who really knows how to cut budgets...
Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat charms. He brings eccentric life to a gallery of characters who are not really characters at all: they are supporting specters in one naive American's gook sonata. They may all be the same person, or no one at all. And in the play's final image...
Characteristically, he played all the notes of that theme at a lunch with Republican Senators and Congressmen. The President-elect spoke of the desire of voters for "an America that serves them and doesn't interfere with every facet of their lives," then added with a grin, "If I keep on with this I'll be making a campaign speech, and I don't want to do that!" He pledged that "you won't have to always wait to come to the White House because there will be a number of occasions when...
...corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made up for by Today's new weatherman, Willard Scott, 46, a good old Virginia boy who has a more engaging grin than anyone else has had since Arthur Godfrey left TV 21 years...
Craig is back on Garden ice all the time these days--as goalie for the Bruins. And when the Colorado Rockies cruised into town last week in fancy, four-color uniforms, who showed up to grin at the former Terrier from left defense but his old buddy, Hughes...