Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Brooke made her first entrance, "halfway through the show, the models backstage applauded. Onstage, as the audience clapped politely, she broke into a grin, as if she thought the whole spectacle a big giggle. If Valentino had tried to show her the catwalk glide, it wasn't evident; she simply galumphed down the runway as if she had been let out into a spring pasture...
When he launches into one of his droll, deadpan stories, Brady's Buddha-like face tries to conceal an impish grin, with all the success of a novice poker player hiding a royal flush. He relishes answering questions by formulating quotable one-liners and piling adjectives upon metaphors. Occasionally, when he crosses the line from irrepressibility to irreverence, Brady gets into trouble. Once, aboard the campaign plane as it flew over a Louisiana forest fire, he gleefully shouted: "Killer trees! Killer trees!" The reference to Reagan's campaign gaffe about the contribution of trees to air pollution grounded...
...facade. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at swarming newshounds. Prince Charles, too, had some unusually sharp words when he addressed a group of Fleet Street's finest. "I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy New Year," he said with a bitter grin, "and your editors a particularly nasty...
...flow they have. When you rip off 75 tons and don't cripple the group financially, you begin to realize how much money there is in it." Redford and other officials expect the pot smuggling activity to continue increasing in the Gulf Coast area. He adds with a grin: "But we hope to pass it on to Texas...
...backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined how he felt. He didn't know that what he was looking at was the sky or that the color was called blue. He only knew that it was beautiful. And I thought, God, just let me be in touch with that baby's feelings...