Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean back in your chair, and slip into reverie about beating Michigan in the Rose Bowl (the Pac-10 champ cancelled at the last minute) and winning the national title. You smile, and wave to the national television audience as you get interviewed by Keith Jackson...
...bank," explains his wife Nora, who is part Spanish, part Chiricahua Apache. Shecan butcher a bear and cook up a steak in the Franklin stove so tender it softens a person's attitude toward grizzlies. "We don't have any credit. No life insurance," she says with a smile, the earthy enduring smile that heroines in South American novels bequeath to their daughters...
Ironically, today's baseball players are far more tame than those of old. The Babe thought nothing of bragging about his gluttony, nor did Mantle try to hide his drinking. But moments of true emotional celebration are no longer greeted with a smile. Spontaneous outbursts must be kept behind close doors; in public, good citizens behave with reserve. Consequently, it's deemed better to have the players brought onto a pre-built reception stage to recite truisms to the television cameras about the joys of victory...
...winning candidate flashes a toothpaste smile and a boyish charm. He wears button-down shirts, pleated slacks and wire-rimmed glasses that suggest his Ivy League background. Clearly, Kurt Schmoke, 37, winner of the Democratic mayoral primary in Baltimore, represents a new breed of big-city black politician. He is no graduate of the clubhouse system dominated for some 30 years by William Schaefer, Baltimore's respected former white mayor, who was elected Governor of Maryland last November. Instead, Schmoke, a Rhodes scholar, is out of Yale, Harvard Law School and Oxford. Last week he defeated a black politician from...
Similarly, Pete Newell could smile at Brazil's great basketball moment last month. In 1960 Newell coached Oscar Robertson and Jerry West to the Olympic gold medal by an average of more than 40 points a game. "What's the fun in that?" he asks. Along with other coaching ambassadors, he began traveling the world and spreading the gospel. "Now there are good basketball players in Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon ((a Beirut pivotman carried Syracuse to the last N.C.A.A. final)), all over Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, almost everywhere. We're not going backward; they're just coming...