Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtle prompting of producer Andrew Oldham, the press created an image for the group: semi-civilized sex demons, interested only in violating white-skinned virgins and avoiding baths and haircuts. In March 1964, Melody Maker ran a headline which must have made the behind-the-scenes mastermind smile very broadly: "Would You Let Your Daughter Go With a Rolling Stone?" Said Oldham at the time and repeatedly through the years: "For the Stones, bad news is good news...
...fifth round, Holmes rose up on his toes and began to dance lightly and smile occasionally. His hands gathered speed, and Cooney became especially hittable. By the sixth, Rappaport and co-Manager Mike Jones had to make room in the corner for Cutman Artie Curley, whose patchwork was inspected once by the physician at ringside. In the 90° desert heat, aggravated by the television lights, both men sprayed sweat like revolving lawn sprinklers. Holmes, 6 ft. 3 in. and 212½ lbs., and Cooney, 6 ft. 6 in. and 225½ lbs., looked equally fit. Cooney, who lad never...
...cast of characters was utterly right, a collection that Dickens would have imagined if he had been a late 20th century American Nixon himself was a masterpiece of internal disharmonies, with a face-the discomfited scowl, the sudden stabbingly inappropriate smile-like five cats and a bitter Calvinist thrown into a Hefty bag. There was G. Gordon Liddy, the wild hair Nietzsche who held his hand in candle flames. There was Martha Mitchell, the Aunt Pittypat embarrassment and midnight telephone dipso who turned into an oracle...
...inspired a mere 60 protesters to join him in waving signs and Bibles at the papal motorcade. For weeks Paisley had insisted that "anyone blessed by the Pope is cursed." When John Paul II spotted the knot of angry dissenters on a side street, he turned and, with a smile, coolly bestowed his blessing upon them...
...stronger in our faith already." Said Glasgow Youth Joyce Kilty: "He has a natural magnetism, especially for young people. Maybe it is because he gives us something to hope for. It's nice to catch a glimpse of him." Said another teenager: "Could it just be his wee smile...