Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Danes managed a smile for the Christmas season and feasted on the traditional goose and rice puding, they were hardly in a festive mood. Their holiday purchases tended toward necessities like clothes rather than luxuries, betraying their anxiety about the future. Said Andersen's wife Hanne: "Judgment Day is getting closer...
...popular, ever portentous subject, the American character, tend to be members of the family-but by a sort of adoption only. They are not quite at ease at home. They look about them with a preternaturally bright, not overfond eye. They like to go off into a corner and smile ironically when the rest of the family sings, "For he's a jolly good fellow...
...aisles passing fruit and sunflower seeds. Joni's arrival turns the camp town meeting into a sing-along chautauqua. After the concert, the fans mass around the main stage exit to wait for Joni, and when she appears they voice timid hellos, give her bouquets or simply smile...
...Shaw wrote, are Mark Mosca and Bonnie Brewster here and they both live up to every expectation of Shaw's. The roles demand a lot of nuance from their actors--facial expressions and the slightest gestures must be just right--and both are admirable. Mosca has a certain half-smile that he can turn into a scowl as easily as a self-congratulatory smirk. Although his rages somehow seem more passionate than Napoleon probably was, the whole play seems to support that kind of style. After all, Shaw needed to build a rapport between Napoleon and the audience...
Highway call, there's something in your smile...