Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good performances, especially by Rip Torn and Dana Hill, play against the sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
Benigno Aquino stood in his Center for International Affairs (CFIA) office weating a sheepish smile and waging what appeared to be a losing battle against a mass of papers and documents that cluttered his small desk...
...discipline, organization, punctuality--were spurious currency in a community fueled by spontaneity, in which models wandered into shootings late and relied on after-hours socializing to advance professionally. Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself--my face, my figure, my smile--being rebuffed, sometimes tactfully, often abruptly, on a daily basis. I eked out a living for several months, feeling insignificant and doomed. Without a backlog of experience to reassure me that my smile had not vanished for good, I learned exactly how difficult it can be for a young person...
...France, the chew 'em up, spit 'em out nature of the fashion business in New York demanded discipline, organization and punctuality from a model. More significantly, however, after my hapless period in Paris I had resolved to stop sabotaging myself with sullenness and instead to practice stretching out a smile, no matter how I felt inside. A silly idea, perhaps; but looking back, I believe it had a catalytic effect on the people around me, which in turn made it easier to feel somewhat positive and flexible for the first time in my life...
...life were a soap opera, then Nixon would undoubtedly be the inspiring heroine who weathers the storm and stress with a patient smile and unwearying resilience. The daughter of a burial-garments manufacturer in Nashville, Aggie Eckardt yearned to write drama. After she graduated from Northwestern University's School of Speech in 1946, her skeptical father got her an audience with the querulous queen of soap opera, the prolific Irna Phillips, creator of The Guiding Light and Another World. Agnes was hired on the spot to be a soap writer in Chicago...