Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was producing stories for men's magazines like Male and Stag, Martin Cruz Smith once watched a colleague waltzing down the hall waving a check for six figures and wearing "a grin that met in the back of his throat." Recalls the author: " 'One day,' I thought, 'I'll be doing the same dance as Mario Puzo...
...home baseball games, when a minimal telegraphed strike-or-ball message had to be fleshed out into an imaginative description of a game unseen. For Reagan (called Dutch then, though unlike Cronkite he has no Dutch in him) it was good actor's training. Cronkite says with a grin: "If I'd been Dutch Cronkite and stayed with baseball, I might be President now." Instead, this week he is interviewing the President. For Cronkite those game broadcasts were valuable experience in ad-libbing, but also an introduction to show biz in the presentation of the news, a subject...
...rushed delivery caused him, un characteristically, to misjudge some of his applause lines. Late in the speech, he drew a loud and long ovation by asking the assembled Congressmen and Senators to make his program not just the Administration's idea but "our plan." Reagan flashed his widest grin and remarked, "I should have arranged to quit right there" -then went on speaking for another 4½minutes...
...almost too funny to bear. Yes, Newman has taken a lot of critical abuse in his twenty-five years of stardom and deserved most of it. No one can play the devilish rogue or the impudent egotist better than Newman with his wry grin and the irresistable twinkle in his eye. But, Newman dwells under the curse of the Pretty Man. Remember Robert Redford as the prison warden in Brubaker? Newman's even less credible as a cop; he has "gentleman jock" written on his face and if you passed him in Grand Central you'd think...
...hesitation, a toothy grin. "More of the same...