Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempered Garfield into tough resiliency; the characters that Gould plays frequently need help ordering breakfast. Garfield wrestled with evil forces and emerged, if not untainted, then certainly unvanquished. Gould's characters can't hold their jwn against a teen-age mugger; they all react to corruption with a sly smile and a shrug?and then reduce it to absurdity through comic overexposure. Garfield...
Though the winners of 20 of the 24 individual events are Californian or California-trained, the widest smile on the West Coast was on the face of a gray-haired Hoosier. Indiana University's redoubtable Dr. Jim Counsilman will have Hall, Kinsella, Spitz and Stamm swimming for his N.C.A.A. champion team next winter. As Dr. Jim, who coached U.S. Olympic champs in Tokyo in 1964, sums it up: "I wouldn't want to coach another country in the 1972 Olympics...
...what did she have to say to this lordly bit of Tojoism? "I responded as I had to all of his utterances ever since I became his wife at the age of 18. I bowed low to him and said Hai [yes]," she recalled with a captivating smile...
Nathanael West habitually wore what he called "the smile of an anarchist . . . with a bomb in his pocket." He also carried the bomb. During the '30s, West flipped two high-explosive satires (Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust) at Middle America. Hardly anybody noticed. His four novels, which took 14 years to write (1924-1938), earned him exactly $1,280 in royalties. Twenty years after his shocking death he was recognized as the finest and blackest American humorist since Mark Twain went to his bitter end. Now, a young California English professor has at last accorded West...
Despite war, smog and calamity, Americans have a chance this week to find relief from gloom. For one thing, it is National Smile Week, with Actors Raymond Bailey and Irene Ryan of The Beverly Hillbillies as king and queen. It is also National Beauty Queen Week, "to call local and national attention to the promotion of beauty queens and their value to the economy"-though the cause took a small set back last week when 18-year-old Robyn Louise Rawers, monarch of Redwood City, Calif., was arrested for stealing clothes and cash from a sports shop. Best...