Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordon greeted him, and the cameras, with a smile. But the smile faded quickly as Kierans presented his letter, which began, "The financial capitals of the world have just about had enough from Canada." In effect, the letter called the tax discriminatory, prohibitive and unworkable-"complete and utter nonsense." It was, he continued, "an axe to murder the record of trust and confidence that has grown up over the years." As Kierans talked to Gordon, his Montreal office distributed 1,200 copies of the letter in English, and another 600 in French, to every company president with shares listed...
...Every song is a séance for them, and they listen with every muscle. They are devout, transported, almost catatonic, and when the music stops, there is a little lost moment while their eyes blink and they heave the sigh of the far voyager come home. Then they smile approvingly and say, "Yeah...
Asked about the slaying, Provenzano protested to newsmen: "I loved the guy. He looked just like my son. Those dimples. That smile. I practically raised him. I saved his job I don't know how many times. He was accident-prone...
...adding her own gossamer footnote to history. "My dressing room was very girly-girly," she reported later. "We didn't talk much. I thought he was a little flushed when he came in. Then I told him I was a Republican, and he gave me a big smile...
...Cocoon. A beam whose upper half had been partially cut away reminded Marisol of the Mona Lisa: as she examined the grain of the cutaway part, she thought she saw the famous smile. She painted in the face, guided by the grain, and added a pair of plaster hands around the middle of the beam. The result looks as if the Mona Lisa were about to emerge from some sort of wooden cocoon...