Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hope I came to say the words you want to hear," he closes with a self-amused grin...
Having compromised his family and country, John entered the courtroom with a broad smile. Michael rocked in his chair at the defense table and turned to grin at his wife Rachel and sister Margaret. Father and son seemed to avoid eye contact. After they took turns pleading guilty to espionage charges, their attorneys successfully urged the judge to accept a plea- bargaining agreement they had made with the Justice Department...
They work so well because their creator never looks at them with the eyes of a sociologist or a folk singer. He remains, despite whitening hair and expanding waistline, despite a popularity that has sold 40 million books in 20 countries, that eager high school senior with the chipmunk grin who still contemplates the world as if he were seeing it for the first time. "My four daughters are grown up," he says, "and I'm a grandfather three times. But I'm still one of those oversize kids who say Gee whiz! I say it at least twice...
...spoke to the enraptured employees of Sara Lee, the word was flashed to McFarlane about the terrorists' plans to fly out of Cairo. Onstage, Reagan thundered his ire against deficits and roared another pledge to get Government spending down. "God bless you," he shouted from behind his famous grin. The red-jacketed Deerfield High School band swung into Military Escort, and the crowd cheered. Behind the stage in what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential...
Nonetheless, the revival is a triumph. Robards' broad grin and quick-jigging movement at first belie and then reinforce his harrowing depiction of a man obsessed with self-hatred. He rockets around the stage with the febrile energy of a revivalist on skid row, but his every assertion is tinged with mockery. Although he claims to have seen the light, he is on a spree of destruction, not salvation. He wants to deprive his pals of their last shred of dignity, their dreams of resurrecting the past. Hickey was always a sometime drunk, still connected to the world of work...