Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THANKS FOR THE WONDERFUL PORTRAIT of Johnson and his smile on your cover. His grin lights up a room, and his story lights up the heart! The virus he has seems not to have altered his physical health or his attitude toward life--so different from some of your recent cover subjects, the arrogant, the greedy, the obsessed and the corrupt, who are suffering from "viruses" of mind and soul. I decry the appalling and widespread ignorance about AIDS that kept Magic too long from the things he does best: playing great basketball and making folks smile! Give us more...
...Wednesday and dusting off earlier proposals during the following days. For Forbes, whose buscapade pulled in across the Milford village green the same morning, the goal was some fast retrofitting. First came the required contrition for the slasher ads: "In business and politics," he said through a clip-on grin, "mistakes can be made. The key is to learn from mistakes. I have, and I'm moving forward...
During an interview at the midtown apartment that serves as his Manhattan pied-a-terre, Diller is restless even in repose. His is a singular physical presence, his fine-boned body at odds with his rock of a head and a gap-toothed grin that is both wary and omnivorous (actually, he looks a lot like David Letterman minus the hair). As Diller talks, he twists himself into ligament-straining positions on the couch. He fidgets with his socks, gets up again and again to fiddle with the thermostat--it's as if he can't help exuding nervous energy...
...various colleges--Claremont Colleges in Pomona, Lake Tahoe Community College, Sacramento State--without ever receiving a degree. Eventually, he dropped out to earn $15 to $20 an hour working for a video-game distributor. "I got a lot of experience playing the early arcade games," he says with a grin, "'testing,' as we used to say, to make sure the machines worked properly--for hours...
...Brooklyn Dodgers or how in 1820 Americans consumed four times more alcohol on average than they do today. Gone are the self-deprecating gibes about his family business. "I guess you can say I came to the attention of management at an early age," Forbes would say with a grin. His winning quirkiness these days is shielded by a layer of wounded suspicion. When a voter in Earlham, Iowa, asked him whether he supported same-sex marriages, Forbes reacted like he had been punched in the stomach, stuttering "...I guess you could say I'm hopelessly conventional...