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...society portraitist Cecil Beaton preferred his subjects to mouth the word "lesbian." Just as perverse, the French often opt for "le petit oiseau va sortir," Spaniards say "patata," while the Japanese have adopted the English term "whisky." As the relator of such delightful trivia, the latest elicitor of the smile is author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 1998, Trumble's book artfully deconstructs the smile "into more lines than...
...defensive? One approach, suggests Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, "might be to say, 'I've read that it's important for health-care professionals to wash their hands frequently--and that doctors are so busy they sometimes forget.'" It probably helps to smile when you say that...
...Affleck flashes his forgive-me smile and says, "I'm not really a whoremonger." This plangent one-liner is from his new movie, Jersey Girl, but the gaga-for-gossip public would not have been surprised if it had come from Affleck's recent chats with Jay Leno and Larry King or from a Saturday Night Live skit the other week when he was the guest host. And no, Jennifer Lopez didn't pop in, the way Affleck's ex-ex-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow did the last time he was the host...
Mann recounts the event with a slight smile on his face—describing how he and his batterymate amazingly ended up striking out the batter on the next pitch, only to hear a mysterious, excruciating “pop” in his arm on a routine throw to third—but the residual disappointment manages to show through the pleasantries...
...We’ve both been there all four years and I think we have mastered the art of playing next to each other,” Williamson says. “We also have a lot of fun out there. We try very hard to make Kara smile when she’s on the mound, which is incredibly difficult...