Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first presidential press conference to advance his favorable initial image as an open, informal but take-charge President (see following story). Carter even displayed humor on the solemn subject of engaging the Russians -and the press. "When the A.P. reporter was expelled from Moscow," the President said with a smile, "I had a first thought to retaliate by expelling the A.P. reporter from Washington...
There Sakharov welcomes Western journalists to issue yet another appeal to world opinion for Soviet political prisoners. There he counsels and often gives needed sanctuary to other colleagues in dissent. Tall, stoop-shouldered, quick to smile, his gray hair a fringe around his bald crown, Sakharov looks, in these conversations, more like a genial professor holding forth at a home seminar than a man in the process of defying the world's most powerful Communist state. Indeed, the odds of winning his challenge seem so impossible that he sometimes calls himself, with self-deprecating humor, Andrei Blazhenny-a Russian...
...like everybody calling him Mr. President." To set his family at ease, Carter, in a private moment in a room in the Capitol a few minutes after the swearing-in, asked if they had ever seen his 18-month-old grandson Jason imitate him. "Come on, Jason, smile like Jimmy," he coaxed. Jason obliged with a toothy, if tiny smile...
...Cheerful Smile. The teacher stands up to the boss and wins back her man, but not before making moral weather as heavy as a tundra blizzard out of it. "Like a lot of people, I came up here chasing a dream," she says. "Unlike a lot of people, I won't sell my soul...
Gladys Knight, lead singer of the Pips, here makes what might loosely be called her acting debut. She moves through her role with an unfailingly cheerful, nose-crinkling smile but with almost none of the slick exuberance and sensuality of her musical performances. Occasionally, when the script calls for her to ride somewhere in a plane or car, the camera dwells on the passing snowscapes and Gladys...