Word: grinning
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...Brash was the tone for several actors who died last year. Van Johnson, 92, was the boy-next-door type, wooing such luscious ingenues as Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, June Allyson and Janet Leigh. But he laced his altar-boy grin with a terrier's raspy impatience; he was the Chris Matthews of 1940s MGM. A trash-talking, proto-rapping musical-comedy star of a later era, Rudy Ray Moore, 81, created the street-smut sasser Dolemite as part of his stand-up act, then used the character as the hero of a legendarily transgressive 1975 blaxploitation epic. Stick around...
...wonder Jody Reynolds, 75, whose Endless Sleep had a suicide theme and haunting guitar thrum; to Eddy Arnold, 89, country music's chart-topping "Tennessee Plowboy" whose early career was managed by Elvis' Svengali, Col. Tom Parker; to Jerry Reed, 71, the Nashville session guitarist with the foolin'-around grin, who became a country star with When You're Hot, You're Hot, and played Burt Reynolds' rowdy pal in Gator and Smokey and the Bandit; and to Larry Levine, indispensible audio engineer for Phil Spector's Wall of Sound epics and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds LP. He died...
Emotionalism, by the Avett Brothers I discovered the Avett Brothers while browsing in one of those iconic hippie shops in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The album was playing on the store's sound system, and I was instantly smitten. It is impossible not to grin while listening to this infectiously upbeat blend of folk, rock and bluegrass, all played on acoustic instruments and with whimsical, witty lyrics to boot...
...youth should acknowledge the accomplishments of the great leaders he learned about in his childhood and work to move the country closer to the “perfect ideals” it was founded upon. In contrast to Booker, Negretti took to the stage wearing a grin that remained on her face throughout her speech. She told the story of Maria Carrasco, a Lynn, Mass. school committee member who was inspired to enter public service after attending one of ¿Oiste?’s courses on politics and leadership. After invoking the popular Spanish anthem...
...fond throwback to Super Mario and his 16-bit adventures; Obama collects American flag lapel pins while fending off lipstick-wearing pigs, lobbyists and out-of-control racks of Sarah Palin's wardrobe (knocking one over is worth 150,000 points. Ba-dum), all the while maintaining his trademark grin and superhuman cool. Watch out for that bridge to nowhere, though - and those piles of burning books at the Wasilla library...