Word: smile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Photographs of Author-President Noor Mohammed Tarakki, 61, smile benignly from every conceivable public place, but the purges seem to have delivered the levers of power to Foreign Minister Hafizullah Amin. A former schoolteacher, Amin has so far managed to keep a sure foot on an ideological tightrope. When he is abroad in Havana or at the United Nations, his harangues often sound like those of a Communist, but at home he does not always act like one. He has eagerly signed aid deals with the U.S., Japan and the World Bank, which is setting up fruit-export agencies...
...iguanas (one of which is named Truman Capote because, as Robin explains, "he's cold-blooded"). Robin's sketches, however, occasionally reflect the ironies of Celluloid City. One, called the "Hollywood Mime," for instance, has a character dancing from door to door in Hollywood, banging on each and smiling hopefully until the smile literally falls off his face and has to be pasted back on. Robin Williams should have no such tribulations: his is stuck tight with Krazy Glue...
...American League East, with only two games remaining in the season. But excellent Red Sox hitting, fielding and intense desire--coupled with a Cleveland lead through seven-and-a-half innings--turned routine Fenway cheers into standing ovations; hopes began to fly, and even Don Zimmer managed an airy smile...
Marty Burke, King's press secretary, bobbed through the crowd, a bemused smile splitting the salt-and-pepper beard as he struggled to be heard by the tall people in the crowd, which to him was everyone. Burke, who had come dressed for an execution, looked out of place at a coronation, but he made the best of it. "He'll be down to make a statement as soon as Michael concedes," Burke called out to no one in particular. "Eddie feels it's proper protocol for Michael to concede first before he says anything." All those first names...
...could be that this success will light a spark, indeed a fire, in the President. His cool and distant smile of the past months could not hide all the hurt in his eyes from the rising national doubts about his competence. As Americans cheer his Camp David achievement, Jimmy Carter with luck and wisdom could be born again a second time in a way that could lift this nation as well as himself. Men in public service are nourished by justified public acclaim. Carter's time has at last come...