Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Bailey was taken by surprise at the speedy decision, though he quickly broke into a broad smile at what he called a "thumping acquittal." Medina stood, slightly stoop-shouldered while the verdict was read, then hastily downed a glass of water. He avoided looking at his wife Barbara, who collapsed in tears. Outside the court, Medina told newsmen: "I feel no bitterness at all." In fact he might have felt extreme gratitude for being let off. Nevertheless he still planned to resign from the Army. "I just personally feel within myself that I cannot wear the uniform with...
...VERTICAL SMILE by Richard Condon. 334 pages. Dial...
...very beginning of his new novel. Given enough time, and allowing for certain obvious exceptions-Moby-Dick and the Hardy Boys' Hunting for Hidden Gold come to mind-almost every novel since the invention of movable type could have been called, with poetry and justice, The Vertical Smile. The imagination turns jelly-kneed: War and Vertical Smiles, Remembrance of Smiles Vertical, The Sun Also Smiles Vertically. Condon thought up the title first, however, and he picks up the marbles. No one will ever slip a better description of the exterior aspect of the human female sexual apparatus into...
...Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail. The candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and the elders of the Church of Christ, Computer. The trouble is that Mulligan's youth image is endangered because his 68-year-old mother-in-law is having an affair with a 70-year-old man. Their attraction must be cooled, because to the young American voter, any suggestion...
...Author Mosley-a lot of skill and daring and not a little wobble. The unsatisfied muse, Natalie, might point out that there are too many attenuated aperçus here and too big an aesthetic load weighing on such a slight situation. But the sweet muse, Natalia, would smile upon a good writer trying to define and dramatize the mystery of creativity. In the end, Tony thinks, "If Natalia was sun and earth, I was gravity." It is a stunning metaphor for a writer's goal: the illusion that he controls, even for a euphoric moment, the attraction...