Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelation for Don, who still attends meetings at the center every Wednesday night. He's doing well now, and so is the marriage. Joyce would like to see the counseling program expanded?and one thing more. Says she with a wan smile: "I'd love to see a great big parade?one time, national." ?By Lance Morrow. Reported by Jeff Melvoin/Los Angeles and Peter Staler/New York, with other U.S. bureaus
Scene 2: A tired smile adorning his face, Pierre Juquin eyed the television cameras. He was reading the official post-election declaration of the Communist Party. "We are happy to have shared in this great victory for the Left," he said. Around him, snickers were easily audible. The Communists had, in fact, lost almost half their representatives to Parliament [from 86 to 44], suffering a setback that many feel will be lethal for their present leaders. As if in confirmation, Juquin had seemingly replaced Party chief and media star Georges Marchais as official spokesman. Among France's Communists, symbolism like...
...right there. Jack Benny could send his audience into hysterics with one squeaky note on his violin. Johnny Carson can turn a bad joke into a kneeslapper with a single bland stare, and Murray can send up lines so well by just standing there with that bemused, half-dopey smile on his face, that by the time he utters a word, the audience is ready to laugh at whatever he says...
...Broadway version of Cats from some of the same angels who thought the project too risky to invest in when it needed funds a few months ago. So the Prince of Wales and his bride-to-be are not the only British couple who have reason to smile these days. Catch Lloyd Webber or Nunn off-guard, and you are likely to see a mile-wide Cheshire-cat grin. -By Richard Corliss
...anticipated, they produced no ground-breaking agreement, or at least none the two leaders were willing to reveal. But the very fact that the meeting had occurred seemed to be enough to allow each man to walk away pleased, although Begin clearly had more reason to smile. He had got Sadat to agree with him on a key point: that Syria was to blame for the missile crisis in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "My view is that the Syrian forces should withdraw from Lebanon. [They were] the cause of everything...