Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right-wing factions that could sap Duarte's strength in the assembly is led by Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer who has been repeatedly accused of being a death squad leader, a charge he ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove...
...daffodils were abloom in London's Hyde Park, and over at Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put on her brightest smile for the tourists. It was, after all, nearly the end of one of Britain's bitterest winters, and she had reason to think that sunnier days might be ahead for her government. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had just presented the House of Commons with a new budget. It shrewdly offered a little something for everyone, effectively assuaging dissidents within the Tories' own ranks and taking the steam out of expected Labor opposition...
...show. They miss their Malibu, Calif., home and, most of all, their German shepherds, Bob and Stan. Dogs are a major topic of Letterman's comedy, and absence from Bob and Stan may help drive Letterman and Late Night to California. For now, though, there is plenty to smile about-and Letterman does, with his patented platypus grin. "I just want to make the show as playful as possible," he says. And why not? Hey folks, it's only Network Television...
...hand. "I am psyched." JJ. Gertler, a formidable Amherst also-ran, is chatting "Don't you want to be in politics, J.J.?" friend asks. "Oh, my gracious, I hope not," he says. "We hope not too," chimes a passing victor, and Gertler, only momentarily speechless, manages a game smile...
...greeted us with his characteristic mocking, slightly demonic smile. He looked better than I had ever seen him, joking with my companions David Bruce and Winston Lord about Bruce's age (then 75), Lord's youth (36) and his own seniority over both of them...