Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That smile said a number of things. It was, first, a calculated effort to demonstrate Soviet pleasure at the upcoming resumption of talks with leaders of the United States. It was also meant to cast Mondale as the more reasonable, moderate half of the Presidential candidate duo, as a practical statesman aware of the urgency of superpower communications. At a brief and formal meeting with the President earlier in the week, by contrast, Gromyko was careful to maintain an expression of utter solemnity...
What is so enervating is that the dander comes in large measure from inside your own mind, Enveloped in official lies, swathed in ... ironic smile, smothered in warm and generous friendliness that can burn cold at an order from above, you exist in the knowledge that at any moment of the state's choosing it can manipulate your surrounding environment gradually or dramatically to cause slight discomfort or excruciating pain. So you begin to take a defensive posture. You feel guilt over ordinary acts of courtesy goodwill toward Russians who want book they cannot get, for instance...
Gromyko is the first top Soviet official Reagan has been able to get his hands on when he needed to. Old Grom cannot help mustering an inward smile about the royal treatment that follows a period of international sulking...
...points and lost by 15. Patriot Rookie Irving Fryar caught the first touchdown pass of his pro career. Even before Harris had shed all of his armor afterward, Fryar appeared at Franco's stall and quietly sat down next to a bald man with an amiable smile, Bill Gordon, who happened to coach them both in high school. Gordon regarded the two players with the pleasure of an architect imagining his last house adjoining his first. To Fryar, 21, the thought of just having shared a field with Franco Harris was stupefying. For Harris, these episodes of This...
...unquiet spirit. He is a demon for order and travels to the doctor's office with a shoehorn so he can replace his footwear easily after an exam. "He thinks he's ugly," says Ines, who will sometimes sneak up and start tickling him to make him smile. He frets over whether to have a nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which can be entrepreneurial, as in his double-F logo for the Fendis that appears, like...