Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesson goes on, she speaks to the children in Arabic in a voice that almost sings. Each faltering step toward literacy is rewarded with a smile from the nun and a hearty shout of "Bravo!" or a piece of candy...
Then Nunn drew a remarkable admission from General Vessey. He asked whether the Joint Chiefs all supported Dense Pack. With a rueful half-smile, Vessey conceded that three of the five did not. That confirmed the rumor circulating in the House. Vessey, an Army general, later clearly implied that only he and Air Force Chief of Staff Charles A. Gabriel had favored going ahead with Dense Pack. Opposed to Dense Pack until there is greater technical evidence of its ability to survive a Soviet first strike were Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer, Chief of Naval Operations James...
When I got to his office, his door was wide open. I introduced myself and he welcomed me in with a smile, offering me a seat opposite his desk. That first hour-long conversation with George Kistiakowsky was filled with pleasant surprises. I was surprised not only by the things he said, but also by the things he did not say. He never asked me whether I was a chemistry student as if chemistry professors see only chemistry students. He never said anything that would make me feel I was wasting his time of that would make me feel uncomfortable...
Meryl Streep's performance is a seamless, seductive piece. Sophie's past justifies Streep's familiar mannerisms: the wistful, knowing smile, the nervous fingers burrowing into a copse of hair, the starts and stops of dialogue, even the red blotches on her skin in moments of high tension. She plays Sophie in a Polish-accented contralto and, in the flashbacks, speaks serviceable Polish and German. In a smaller picture, with a lesser actress, this would seem a highfalutin stunt, a meaningless demonstration of dexterity. Here it is one more challenge that this galvanizing actress set for herself...
Jessica Lange emerges more than honorably. Her face eschews classical symmetry; its bumps and crooks, its tight-dimpled smile, comment ironically on Hollywood's obsession with the Aryan ideal. But she can be, like Frances Farmer, both vulnerable and powerful. She works with a telling economy of gesture: nodding wearily as she listens to Odets' manifestoes, sucking desperately on a cigarette as if it contained the only oxygen in the room. Lange's inevitable Oscar nomination will be every bit as honestly earned as Streep...