Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America goes down with him. Stephen Toope's Moorehouse lacks the strength to carry this broad, demanding part. He takes what is essentially a string of stereotyped roles--the various stages of Moorehouse's life--and produces hollow caricatures of the stereotypes. Toope masters the young man's engaging smile and the power-hungry eyes of a rising businessman, but beyond this sort of obvious device brings little depth to the part. If he is credible as the shallow, aging Moorehouse of the second act, it is not because he has captured the character, but because Toope plays the part...
...advice, assure yourself that he or she is in good repute with the IRS. Beyond that, make peace with former lovers and other potential enemies, and stay away from Mafia connections that could be reported, to the IRS by the FBI. Further, advises IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz with a smile, "take a lower-paying job, and use standard deductions...
...closing the loopholes for ten weeks, foreign sugar flooded the U.S. In December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal amount. With warehouses still bulging with surplus sugar, prices are expected to be depressed for months, a fact that may make housewives smile but is of no solace to the still beset U.S. sugar grower...
...looked ghastly, the skin on his face drawn into a horrible sneer, his lips pulled away from his teeth, and his arms colored green from the intravenous tubes. He had been a very handsome man, with blonde hair cut at the neck, a jutting chin, and an easy, ready smile...
What Tiegs does now is a fast, intricate dance. She turns quickly, swirling the skirt of her red dress. She is very good. At the height of the swirl, and an instant before Seltzer's strobe lights flash, she smiles in a way that seems marvelously natural, although the smile's wattage is far greater than anything likely to be encountered in the real world. For perhaps 20 minutes, the pattern of turn, swirl, smile is repeated without letup, but with subtle variations. In these 20 minutes, Seltzer fires off four or five rolls of 36-exposure Kodachrome, perhaps...