Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ears focused on him. It took him three tries before he landed his Senate seat in 1974. Since then, he has been a hard-working centrist. In his debut as a national political figure, Glenn will sound an inspirational note. With his familiar face, his easy, Eisenhower-like smile and technocrat's precise mind, Glenn is a major contender for second place on Carter's ticket...
...trained voice, alway intelligible whether piano, mezzoforte, or fortissimo. And he does not succumb to the temptation to keep yelling constantly. He knows how to move, too, as when in the grips of neurosis he prowls around the circular platform like a caged animal. And he dares elicit a smile when he sputters at Paulina's husband, "I charged thee that she should not come about me," and then adds, sotto voce, "I knew she would." He also managers to ring true when he strips to the waist, takes off his crown and grovels on the floor while encouraging Paulina...
...hammer. "I don't think he is dangerous," mused Ford. "I don't think he is focused on the complexities of the problems we have, or ready to face up to the hard decisions that have to be made." Didn't he like the Carter smile? "It doesn't bother...
Since newsmen did not keep reporting the familiar speech, and since it was never really heard at full length on television (where time cost too much and was hard to arrange), each fresh audience would hear it as largely new, and could smile or sneer in resignation at the snippets it already knew−Carter's longing for a Government as good as the American people, Reagan's chant that the canal is ours, Ford's conviction that a Government big enough to run things is a Government big enough to threaten us. These became applause lines...
...effortless charm of her acting. To go hunting in the back of the mind - as one does for the words to Vilia - for the ease and celerity that once made her dancing so youthful, is to be saddened. Dame Margot's flashing dark eyes and her smile offer a promise she can no longer deliver...