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...gaze is usually impenetrable and impatient, but on this night his brown eyes glistened with moisture. His smile is generally a measured half-moon, but on this night his mouth widened into a toothy grin. From the moment he ascended the multi-tiered podium in Atlanta, before he uttered a single syllable, the Democratic nominee seemed a man transformed. Punching the air in triumph, blowing kisses to his wife: these were not the metronomic gestures of a soulless technocrat. Could that be Michael Dukakis, the unflappable exponent of cool reason, choking on his words? Yes, there was a catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats The Duke Of Unity | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...dentures real tight. He says he has a new girlfriend." Across the table, Pedro Tomas Lopez, 76, reminisces about his early days as a rabble-rousing union organizer in the cigar factories. "The bosses would fire me when they found out who I was," he says with a satisfied grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Soft Whiffs of Memory | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...might be added that many women find his crooked grin and the glint in his hazel eyes downright sexy. But it is also true that in preparing for Big, one scene of which displays all but a few centimeters of Hanks' pelt, he had to work out for weeks at a Manhattan gym, huffing and puffing to reduce that upholstered posterior, expand that narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Eternal Cutup at Work | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...chess tournament, is about to begin. A short, plump man dressed completely in black calls the contestants to order. "If you lose a game," he wryly suggests, "congratulate your opponent. Do not disturb the tournament by exploding, screaming or weeping loudly." On hearing this, Hans Berliner breaks into a grin. A former world chess-by-mail champion, Berliner will not play in the tournament himself. Instead he has entered his computer, a formidable piece of work named Hitech. "Hitech," ( says Berliner with quiet pride, "is inexorable -- like Bobby Fischer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Playing Hitech Computer Chess | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Then Little breaks into a grin. "Just kidding," he says...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: When Worlds Collide: Tutoring in Prisons | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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