Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dazed by the results or was he really as insouciant as he seemed? Referring to the phrase that has become the motto of his campaign, he cracked, still without a smile, 'l'homme tranquille is not just a campaign slogan...
...that as a writerdirector, Alda is too eager to please. He goes for big laughs where a small smile would perhaps be truer to the rueful mood he tries to establish. One feels he is sometimes easing away from the tougher implications of his tale. There is also an empty prettiness to his shooting, especially in the transitions from season to season. Still, American movies are rarely as alert as The Four Seasons is to the tensions implicit in friendship, to the social conventions by which people try to control the anxieties of ordinary life, and one cannot help responding...
...also think the restaurant kept me on the team this year," she says with a smile. "Kit was going to cut me, but my parents always have the team down for dinner during the season, so he didn...
...symptoms: eyes focused in the middle distance, a smile as wide as a convert's and a telltale glint of metal covering the ears. The body may undulate with faint intimations of a boogie. Sometimes the hands fly upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback...
...Dvorak in midtown Manhattan, hits his "hot line" (allowing intrusion by real-world noise) to disagree: "Some people say the gadgets are isolating. But another person with phones comes up and plugs into your music or you into his. There's a camaraderie among users. And now I smile when I walk, because I like what I'm listening to." As he strides off, a truck driver leans from his window in appreciation of a shapely woman crossing the street, small earphones pressed to her blond tresses. The driver shouts to her: "I know...