Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arias appear effortless; the years of striving before she became an overnight star at 37, the tribulations and ironies of raising a deaf daughter, the difficulties of administering the New York City Opera were kept in the wings. All the public saw was a golden diva with a smile they could pour on a waffle. But Beverly Sills is 57, as she is the first to admit, and in her twinkling autobiography she is ready for revelations. She brings back the days of doing Progresso commercials on TV, catalogs the hilarities and humiliations of auditions, repeats Arthur Godfrey's introduction...
...million or so Americans who start orthodontic care each year can brace themselves to smile: the company that came up with Band-Aids has turned its attention to teeth. Johnson & Johnson's orthodontic division last week unveiled a new kind of bracket, the part of braces that affixes to the teeth. Called Starfire brackets, they are made of transparent, stain-proof sapphire. They may become an attractive alternative to clear brackets made of plastic, which tend to discolor. Traditional metallic braces, though still widely used, give some self-conscious patients the feeling that they resemble James Bond's cinematic nemesis...
...mini's role on television and the possible return of another '60s fad, hot pants, Dynasty Designer Nolan Miller says with a smile, "I can only remember what Bette Davis said on a late-night talk show: 'In my day, hot pants were something women had, not wore.' " There is surely wisdom...
...glasses and passed him off as a Turk. "It flew," said Secord laconically. At another point, Secord considered Ghorbanifar so untrustworthy that he told the Iranian middleman he would recommend to the U.S. Government that Ghorbanifar be "terminated." Recounted Secord, with the barest ghost of a smile: "He misinterpreted that." The Senate Caucus Room broke up in laughter...
...presence of a disfigured creature, a monster whose unspeakable crimes would be clearly legible in his three-eyed face. I was disappointed: Adolf Eichmann seemed quite normal, a man like other men -- he slept well, ate with good appetite, deliberated coolly, expressed himself clearly and was able to smile when he had to. The architect of the Final Solution was banal, just as Hannah Arendt had said...