Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than six weeks by a leg injury, displayed some emotion on the court. After he hit his first free throw with three seconds left and the score at 51-49, he wheeled around and gave Ferry a meaty high-five. After the second, he broke into a broad smile and launched himself toward a wildly cheering bench full of teammates...
...trail leads Ed and Beth Herman-at first abrasive adversaries, then trusting amateur detectives-through the blood-streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies...
After him it would be Amplanger's turn, one of the 'new men': ruthlessly dynamic, jovial, robust-his smile was enough to scare a person, and perhaps they needed him quickly to kill him off spectacularly, and could therefore get himself-Tolm-quietly out of the way. Amplanger stood for stock exchange, Olympic shooting team, tennis, Zummerling, and teeth-grinding ruthlessness. Perhaps they wanted to speed up Amplanger's election-he, Tolm, radiated too many humanistic thoughts, self-doubts, too much capitalist melancholy...
...dropped 2¼ points the day of the announcement and 1⅜ more the following day. Coca-Cola finished the week at 31¼, compared with 34⅜ the week before. Said the portfolio manager of one of the largest pension funds, who was without a Coke or a smile: "I think Coca-Cola's paying too much, and I'm not excited about Columbia." The offer works out to about $70 a share for the movie firm, which had been trading for about $42 a share immediately before the merger was announced...
...people free from odd compulsions. An otherwise impeccable butler, intolerable to the Warner family because of his ghastly smile, returns as a volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...