Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disqualifying parents of illegitimate children. Testified Kirk at a commission hearing: "She asked did I have any illegitimate children. I said, 'Not as I knows of. If I has, I hasn't been accused of.' She says, 'You are a damned liar.' I just smiled; I could still give the smile. Then she said, 'I know you were going to tell a lie at the first place.' Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?' I said, 'Just like I am now. This is disfranchise from voting...
...Wagner earned his win. Having turned against the bosses in order to ensure the support of the surging reform Democrats, Wagner managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such bosses as The Bronx's Charles Buckley, Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey-and, particularly, Tammany Hall's Carmine De Sapio. Returning to his Greenwich Village apartment late one night, De Sapio was asked by a neighbor: "How's it going?" Replied De Sapio wearily: "It would be going...
...begins a motion picture called Last Year in Marienbad, easy to smile at, difficult to understand, the work of one of the most acclaimed directors in modern cinema, the New Wave's Alain Resnais. Like his masterpiece, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, the new film compresses and realigns conventional treatment of time, making a looping bow of past and future and knotting it down on the present. Leaving relationships vague, carefully avoiding the usual structure of cause and effect, it tries to force audiences to interpret the story for themselves. Last week Marienbad was named winner of the 1961 Venice Film...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...
Into a glittering trophy shop in Dallas recently came a man who could scarcely hide his embarrassed and expectant smile. "Look," he said, "you probably don't have what I want, but make it up especially for me. My wife and I have been trying to have a baby for ten years now, and she just told me she's pregnant. I want to get her a trophy-she deserves it." It was no trouble at all. Bruce Robbins, owner of a four-store chain called Trophies, Inc., fixed the customer up with a sedate plaque attesting that...