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...free-market" policies at Interior but also from his preachy, pugnacious style. "Jim Watt just stimulates every single emotion," says Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, one of the Secretary's oldest friends. "People flunk the saliva test when they think of him: there he is, with this great, leering grin . . ." Demonstrators taunt him everywhere he goes...
...with-a-quip has lost his sense of humor. His wit is as irrepressible as ever. As he deftly shaped and pushed through the Senate a loophole-closing tax bill last week, the Kansas Republican eased tense moments with one-liners, delivered with his usual boyish grin, a bob of the head and a self-deprecating chuckle. When Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island protested that he could not go along with Dole's key proposal to withhold taxes on interest and dividends because his re-election literature already showed him opposing it, Dole instantaneously gibed...
...side-splitting humor of Sleeper or Bananas. Not to be misleading; this film is not unfunny. If it were not "the new Woody Allen" it would undoubtedly receive uniformly more positive reviews than it has. Sex Comedy provides at least a half dozen good chuckles and a continuous grin. At the beginning of a new phase. Woody Allen is learning to be both funny and warm. This film lacks polish, but a new trend displays potential...
...with the few words of Arabic he learned at home and with his knowledge of Lebanese soccer scores. During one tense negotiation some years ago, an Arab leader broke into a string of expletives, which his translator diplomatically glossed over. Habib sat upright, his face split into a wide grin, and he roguishly wagged his finger at the Arab. Said he: "I don't know much Arabic, but I sure do know those words." The Arab leader laughed, warmed by Habib's directness. Pierre Gemayel, leader of Lebanon's Phalange Party, says: "Habib's Lebanese roots...
Much of the credit for the new acceptance of adult braces must go to the invisible, or lingual, appliance, which offers an alternative to people who cannot face the world with a "tin grin." It was invented by Craven Kurz, 39, a Beverly Hills, Calif, orthodontist who once was a faculty member of UCLA Dental School. Some of Kurz's patients, among them actors, announcers and even Playboy Bunnies, had a professional investment in their smiles. "They were in a Catch-22 situation," explains Kurz. "They needed to have their teeth straightened, but they couldn't use conventional...