Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final ovation for Reagan's speech rolled through the great hall, another intriguing colloquy took place above and behind the President. Bush turned to O'Neill and asked with a grin: "Wasn't that wonderful?" Growled the Speaker...
...Betty Ippolito) has proved a rewarding experience. "I've enjoyed it so much--it's great to have your fellow teamates look up to you, besides it looks good on your resume--I'm so glad I paid them all to vote for me," she quips with a grin...
...pianist," he says, and he will allow nothing to stand in his way. "I've been known to practice until five in the morning," he continues. "I really find it quite pleasant concentrating for such long periods of time--sort of like running the marathon." He adds with a grin, "Of course the chair helps...
...spasmodic brightness, from the cast members, most of whom deliver very fine performances. As pat, the punchy cynical caretaker of the house. Brian McCue is quite good, but, as in many of his past performances, the seams show. There's a "stagey" quality to his limp, his wry grin, his extravagant gestures: one can see too clearly the thought behind every inflection, perhaps. McCue hoped to play upon Behan's theme of dramatic distance, to make the audience sharply conscious of the fact that they are in a theater viewing a performance. Unfortunately, his characterization only reflects the dull spontaneity...
Something in Reagan has always been lucky; it has been part of his attraction, his charm, the nimbus around him. Reagan's luck has a distinctly American shine; his grin proclaims it, the confident expectation of the happy ending. That may be why the nation was drawn to him. Reagan's vehicle on the journey from Dixon, Ill., to Hollywood to the White House ran on persistence and self-knowledge, all right, but it was also propelled by a breezy admixture of the luck that the country was born with...