Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mouth is as much pretence as plaint. In Gaelic putting on the poor mouth means complaining (according to the dictionary) and feigning suffering to get the advantage in a deal. O'Nolan's humour is as elusive and many-faceted as his name, but The Poor Mouth hides a smile, sure. sure...
Self-restraint is a must in television interviewing also. Mike Wallace began as a hard-edged, on-camera prosecutor, but has since developed an effective backhand-a disarming, disbelieving smile when confronted with obviously unpersuasive answers. The thoughtful Edwin Newman is so self-effacing that at times he seems to be turning away from the camera. Barbara Walters often offers a quickstep apology for asking a sharp question, then zeroes right in. Bill Moyers is a moralizer whose imponderable "big" questions sometimes drive his hapless subjects to embarrassingly hasty profundities. But all of these interviewers know that their...
...remarked that he was not really campaigning at all-he was just letting people know that his official campaign would begin with a Labor Day address at Warm Springs, Ga. "My wife's in Tampa letting them know when we will begin campaigning," Carter said, starting to smile. "My son Chip is in Pennsylvania telling them when we'll begin. My brother is in Virginia, and my older son is in Tennessee, just letting folks know when we'll begin...
...Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, offered to Jaworski to become Special Prosecutor: "Haig said, 'You're highly regarded, and it's no secret that you're high on the list for appointment to the Supreme Court.' I suppressed a smile. The remark could have been part flattery, part fact, but I suspected it was all bait...
...mustache is slightly thicker than Clark Gable's, his smile is even more dazzling, and he sees the possibilities. "Clark Gable is the apex," says Actor Billy Dee Williams. "A star is what everyone wants to be, even Presidents...