Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then comes the Day After. You don't just go to class. You stagger in, using Jack Nicholson's patented "Cuckoo Nest" post-electroshock walk. Your section leader takes on the sinister role of Nurse Ratched as you wink, smile and wallow in your rebellious glamour. Better than thumbing your nose at the school principal, blazing through a two week assignment in one night completely destroys your section leader's sense of authority...
Sean Penn is tops. Madonna's bad boy was a wartime swain in Racing with the Moon, a pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film...
After a flourish and a smile, Carroll was whisked to her black limousine and back to TV land. Disappointed fans who didn't make it to the Coop have a second chance this Wednesday at 9 p.m. on television...
...friends say, so I stand up and put on the outward smile again, as if I had finally stoically accepted the 8-2 opening day loss that deep inside seems so insignificant in the proverbial grand scheme of things...
...interested in a Mormon meeting, what's your phone number, where do you live, can we stop by, here's a pamphlet. Once again a friendly introduction had accelerated into a heavenly sales pitch. Trapped in the moving subway, I could only grind my teeth into a smile as disingenuous as their's. After all the bubbly inquiries, I was just one more requirement to be met in their year of divine duty...