Word: smile
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...source of annoyance for uninitiated readers: performer Barry Manilow’s music, for instance, has been a thread running through the series. McCafferty uses his songs, such as “Ready To Take A Chance Again” and “Can’t Smile Without You” as a metaphor for Jessica and Marcus’s relationship. But bringing in a Vegas-bound tour group of elderly Manilow fans and having them stay at the same hotel as Jessica and Marcus is a quirk in the story that strays close to too convenient...
...tempests of the moment" - an obscene amount of attention was paid to the new Obama family dog and then, more appropriately, to the Bush Administration's torture policy and the probably futile attempt to prosecute those who authorized the practices. And then to a handshake and a smile that the President bestowed on the Venezuelan demagogue Hugo Chávez. These are the soap bubbles of our public life. They have become the hasty, capricious, bite-size way that we experience the world. It has made for slovenly, sandy citizenship...
...Chen responds with a smile, calling the man by name and asking about his family and kids. One woman, who says she is from Taiwan and lives close by the store, stays to chat for over twenty minutes...
...this week triggered the student movement in Beijing - they, too, published their work here in Hong Kong. "Isn't it an irony that the party members have to run here, a capitalist city, to publish their thoughts?" Meng Lang, the new book's Hong Kong publisher, asked with a smile. "I have lots of freedom here in Hong Kong. If it can be kept, it can be developed and exported to the mainland." (Read TIME's cover story about life in 1989 China after the crackdown...
...Paris, a woman pushed through the crowd to kiss America's first black President. In London, the public celebrated how Barack Obama charmed a rare smile out of Queen Elizabeth II. In Istanbul, a fan claimed that the American head of state was a symbolic leader of Turkey. But right on the U.S. doorstep in Mexico City, Obama was surrounded by no throngs but only thousands of federal police and soldiers, including snipers overlooking the paths of his bulletproof limousine. Machine gun crews were stationed in front of his hotel...