Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs of the event and the difficulties imposed by protocol, did manage to make a couple of nice observations. They disclosed that in unguarded moments, the Queen has a truly sweet, curiously girlish smile. They also showed that the only glamorous male present, Gary Grant, can look as forlorn and out of it as any mere mortal when no one is paying any attention to him at a party. Such brief privileged moments, however, were not worth the network's trouble. Doubtless it will...
...such difficult and dangerous moves as three back handsprings in a row on the beam, won her last year's European championship. (Korbut did not compete; Turishcheva was injured.) Comaneci has been criticized for being too serious while going through her routines. She responds: "I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have finished my mission...
...archetype is instantly recognizable: curling, confident smile, tight pants, shirt unbuttoned with studied casualness, a flashing medallion nestled in the virile hair of a bronzed chest. He is the heir to centuries of tradition and folklore, the ultimate seducer, the possessor of alchemical secrets of the amorous arts: he is the mythical Italian lover. The myth took a body blow, so to speak, with the recent publication of excerpts from a 400-page study titled Report on the Sexual Behavior of Italians, or, as it was quickly dubbed, "The Italian Kinsey Report." The Italian male emerges from the study...
...popular among Bayi's competitors-that he had tapped some magical source of stamina in the upcountry of Africa that the world would never share. Unlike Bayi-who seems to glide effortlessly over the track with a feathery gait, his delicate, slender features contorted only by an occasional smile-Walker runs a noisy, grimacing race, punctuated by grunts and the thud of heavy footfalls. Part of the drama of a Bayi-Walker race, whenever and wherever it takes place, will be the sight of a front-running Mercury with Hercules at his heels...
After six years of running in the morning, lifting weights in the evening and working on technique in between, Jenner is eager to cash in on his training. A strikingly handsome man with chestnut hair, sparkling hazel eyes and a smile so toothsomely bright that it seems capable of tanning his exquisitely chiseled features, Jenner believes that a gold medal would ensure him lucrative advertising offers and possibly even a movie career. And if he wins the gold, Jenner, the son of a Connecticut tree surgeon, promises not to make the same mistake as Mark Spitz: "I'll show...