Word: grin
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...place sit rows and rows of gleaming successes. Last week, on the same day that I saw Wonder Boys, I watched a different bunch of wonder boys (and women) strut their stuff on a TV special called Summit in Silicon Valley. ("Bunch" is wrong for the collective noun. "Grin?") I watched a grin of high-tech billionaires sunning themselves in national adoration, bright models of achievement for every double-breasted hopeful yearning for a Lexus. No one mentioned beautiful losers. The last shall be last...
...been doing with Monica Lewinsky. "Will you truly bring dignity and courage to the White House?" she asked of McCain. Before she would let him answer, she had one more thing to say. "Also, can my son shake your hand?" Cut. Print it. Sliding by with a sly grin, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in a stage whisper, "Another McCain moment...
...Friday, 7 p.m., State Street, orange line. A synthesizer rolls out the accompanying beats to the tunes of a shiny chromatic harmonica and a lively voice. Michael Wright wears a baseball cap, a warm fleece sweater and a huge grin. Dating back to 1978, this amiable gentleman in his early 40s is a veteran of the Boston subway system--one of the original underground performers. A truly accomplished musician, Wright has played in several local bands and in venues such as the Wang Theater and the Berklee Performance Center. During the daytime, Wright supports his music career with "straight jobs...
...seat in Iran's Majlis-e-Shura, or national assembly. "We want to see democracy take firmer root and blossom," he says. "If the reformers win, we will create an environment where it can flourish." As the driver does a crazy U-turn, Khatami flashes a wide grin...
...climb to the third floor of the historic Gannet House, a small white eighteenth-century colonial nestled in-between Littauer Hall and Langdell Law Library, is winding and steep--but second-year Harvard law student Anna K. Small will have to grin and bear it if she wants to get to her new office...