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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huddling with his lawyer Brendan Sullivan. North maintained his good- humored equanimity, and when a photographer corralled him with his wife Betsy and one of his daughters while they looked at Christmas trees, North was obliging. "Is there no escape from you guys?" he asked with a weary smile as he posed. He left without buying a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toughing It Out | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--John Devin gave Harvard hockey boosters reason to smile last night at Brown...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Once Again, It's On-Again, Off-Again | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

...might expect the same fate to befall Smile, adapted from a 1975 Michael Ritchie film that satirized beauty pageants. The narrative, centering on girls who are strangers, inevitably lacks complex relationships and love interest. Moreover, it is difficult to write a parody much funnier than the real Miss America proceedings. And it is hard to keep audiences interested in the climax -- which entrant will win -- after repeatedly telling them it shouldn't matter. Curiously, Smile works. It is a swift-paced, skillfully performed and thoroughly professional entertainment that balances amusement at the shallow ambitions of the characters with respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Beauty Marks Smile Music | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...doesn't do anything but get you in a lot of trouble." Watch Cray in performance and it is easy enough to see how he could still get in harm's way. He has a voice that sounds as if he gargles with Old Grand-Dad and a sly smile that looks like an open invitation. The grin does not come easy, but upon arrival it is ! bright enough to beam ships through a fog. All that fits nicely. The blues, after all, have always been music about trouble that is only going to get you into more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shots From a Smoking Gun | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...former boyfriends could offer. "If they can't do their part," she says, "I don't think they should be coming around." For a while, Williams lived in a private shelter run by a group called Parents of Watts. Alice Harris, a woman known for her ready smile and generosity, runs the program. "Of course welfare is breaking apart families," Harris says. President Reagan's task force on the American family made a similar contention two weeks ago: "Easy availability of welfare in all of its forms has become a powerful force for the destruction of family life through perpetuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Native Sons | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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