Word: grins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finds that it has not come between them. "Evenings we usually spend together, both working while we sit in the den or maybe watch TV," she says. She also has unique occasions to lobby the President. "You might call it 'pillow talk,' " she says with a grin. "I definitely think I have influenced him on women's issues. There's a woman in the Cabinet-and I suggested that. Now if I can get a woman on the Supreme Court, I'll be batting...
...lawyers (Jerry Paul and Morris Dees, both white, and Karen Galloway, a black), Alligood carried sandwiches to Joan's cell at about 3 a.m., put them down, then took off his shoes and pants and entered the cell, nude from the waist down. Joan noticed a "silly little grin" on his face, saw an ice pick in his hand and grabbed the pick in the struggle to defend herself. The prosecution concedes that Alligood had sex on his mind, but it contends that Joan had willingly accepted his advances on previous visits in return for telephone privileges and sandwiches...
...lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous gamble of playing directly to the audience and makes it pay off in total delight...
Ironically, it is Carrie who looks like the old-fashioned girl. Her round face and soft brown eyes have a grave gentleness that might have prompted Beatrix Potter to call her "sweetly pretty." But Carrie has a mischievous grin, sharper, more biting than Debbie's ever was, and her demeanor is world-weary. A show business kid, Carrie knows all the steps but cannot quite catch life's tune. "Emotionally, I'm crippled," she likes to explain. "I have to catch up on myself...
Whitmore seems uncannily like Truman. As the curtain goes up, the first impulse is to gasp. Whitmore gets all the personal gestures right: the cock of the head, the grin as big as the American flag, and the brisk, soldierly movements of the arms and body. He goes on to embody the man's character and personality...