Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might expect the same fate to befall Smile, adapted from a 1975 Michael Ritchie film that satirized beauty pageants. The narrative, centering on girls who are strangers, inevitably lacks complex relationships and love interest. Moreover, it is difficult to write a parody much funnier than the real Miss America proceedings. And it is hard to keep audiences interested in the climax -- which entrant will win -- after repeatedly telling them it shouldn't matter. Curiously, Smile works. It is a swift-paced, skillfully performed and thoroughly professional entertainment that balances amusement at the shallow ambitions of the characters with respect...
Wanda: Not at all well, Ralph. Only an elephant could miss your ponderously expressed point. I assume it's my turn...
...choir needs its professionals. "We'd be all over the lot, surrounding notes as opposed to hitting them," says Carl Igelbrink, a bass. There is also the matter of attendance. Igelbrink will miss three rehearsals this month because of business travel. An alto has a conflict with a Chinese language class, and another has been out speaking to Hispanic groups for the Republican Party. But the professionals always show up; they need the income while they ! struggle to build performing careers...
...owner of a picture-framing store in West Palm Beach, Fla., who had frown lines filled out last month. Mary Nielsen, an Oakland sales representative who says she is in her late 30s, decided to ease her laugh lines when "people started calling me 'Ma'am' instead of 'Miss.' " Michael Epstein, 32, who runs eight miles a day and plays tennis twice a week, paid $800 for initial treatments in July. "I always had the feeling that I'd be willing to do anything to improve my appearance," says Epstein, who owns a singles club in Encino, Calif...
...down. She also declared, "We shall be acting on the other resignations in the next few days," and emphasized that Ramos "has taken preventive measures against the recklessness of some elements in the military." Ileto became the first member of the new Cabinet to be sworn in. Lest anyone miss the point, Ramos issued a statement through a palace spokesman declaring that the "New Armed Forces of the Philippines stands behind the present government of President Aquino...