Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior year in high school, Smith had grown into a darkly handsome, athletic six-footer with a quick smile and a head that sometimes failed to come down from the clouds. He was a tackle and later quarterback and captain of the Beaufort High football team, which won a state championship--despite Smith's tendency during practice sessions to let his eyes wander to any aircraft that might be cruising above the field...
...schools in Lake City, S.C. (current pop. 5,636), and itched to explore a world beyond and above his own. Irene Jones, his first- grade teacher, remembered him as a bright loner who, on the playground, would "lie flat on his back, stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black...
...paintings: the stark abstractions, composed of thick bars, props and vectors of black on a white ground, that he made in New York after 1950. Their iconic monochrome stamped itself on American cultural memory as vividly as Pollock's drip, Newman's zip, Rothko's blur or the shark smile of De Kooning's women...
...from comic strips. I'll turn to anthologies, to Dagwood and Blondie, and other concoctions of the '50s. They don't belong on my breakfast table in 1986. This kind of nonsense is enough to make me think that all men are loathsome...and I say that with a smile on my face...
...three, many minds about its present and future. It sees rising costs and falling attendance at the box office, while at home Americans watch more movies than ever. It finds the gap between world-wide hits and big-budget belly flops wider than a Whoopi Goldberg smile. As the industry awaits next week's announcement of the Oscar nominations, it has to wonder if, after almost a decade of mostly good times, its sources of popular inspiration have evaporated. Hollywood's Golden Age died in the '40s. Is this the end of the Golden...