Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bearded member of the audience requested during the question and answer period that Kennedy "not smile and give pat answers" about the ability to work within the system for change. "Why don't you just admit that you don't know the answer?" he asked...
...Once again the plot proceeds not so much by incidents as coincidence. In a series of set pieces -a funeral, a literary cocktail party -characters bob up from the past, intermingle, realign themselves and caper off. As they pass, the inexhaustibly observant Nick murmurs his commentary with a rueful smile. All rather contrived, perhaps, but as Powell has one of his characters say: 'Human beings aren't subtle enough to play their part. That's where art comes...
...each of the volunteers who have made this possible DiCara has a smile and a personal greeting. "Sammy," he said to one newcomer, an old classmate from Boston Latin School. "How about this?" He winked at the crowd. "All the guys we've been looking for all summer show up for the free beer." The crowd laughed and Sammy smiled sheepissly. "Hi, I'm Larry DiCara," he said, extending his hand to another. "I don't believe I know your name...
...each of the volunteers who have made this possible DiCara has a smile and a personal greeting. "Sammy," he said to one newcomer, an old classmate from Boston Latin School. "How about this?" He winked at the crowd. "All the guys we've been looking for all summer show up for the free beer." The crowd laughed and Sammy smiled sheepissly. "Hi, I'm Larry DiCara," he said, extending his hand to another. "I don't believe I know your name...
Oates manages the role of the fantasist faultlessly. His eyes gleam, his smile shifts. Sometimes his face seems to be under two separate spells, one side of it benign, the other twitching with intimations of violence. And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast." Suddenly there is a despairing glimpse of a schizophrenic life cracked by thwarted dreams...