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...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...
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...
...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...