Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shows the audience a smile...
...flesh you so fancifully fry is not so succulent, tasty or nice it's death for no reason and death for no reason is MURDER and the calf that you carve with a smile is MURDER and the turkey you so festively slice is MURDER...
...this stuttering, bewildered figure who complies with any request: "That's better that's better, Little Gloria--only smile, please, smile smile smile smile!" Later she becomes pathetically grateful for romantic attention. Some adolescent scenes might have been snipped from a Philip Barry comedy: when 16-year-old Gloria develops a crush on a neighbor, an aunt informs her, "You can't marry him--because if you did, why--well--your name would be--Smith--wouldn't it? You'd be--MRS. SMITH!" The sobbing girl is consoled by her grandmother: "Maybe he could call himself Smythe--wouldn't that...
...They want us to move up there to the mountains. They say we are baboons. Even though we are the higher level of baboons, we still must be up there with the others." She paused with a friendly smile, and gestured with her clippers across the green-gray sugar fields toward the ocean. "This is the place of our ancestors. Our King Shaka is buried over that side. How would the British like it if they had to move from the place where King George is buried...
...partied out," said Sally Alcorn, a member of the Harvard Square Business Association. In recent months she has had to smile through two I-stop openings, the Harvard Square Winterfest and the gala inauguration of the Charles Square Hotel and complex...