Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Voluntary, actuary, that's all bum/ Social Security here I come." Reagan, who is in fact a voluble critic of the current Social Security system and says he does not intend to claim the benefits for which he is now eligible, accepted the gibes with a crinkly smile...
...Smile at 6 and 9:50 (Sat mat at 2:10), Hearts of the West...
...Smile. I've never actually been to southern California, but based on what I've read and heard I've nursed a tremendous loathing for the place. Ah, California--land of Norman Vincent Peale-inspired small businessmen, San Clemente, sterile beauty and freeways. Smile was released about a year ago, and because of some kind of distribution problems, hasn't made it to a lot of theatres. The focus of the movie is a state beauty pageant managed by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) and judged by Bruce Dern, but that's just a jumping off point...
...begun to negotiate the peace in the '50s, with the Anatomy of Criticism, which outlined the science of literary criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture-style, roaming up and down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors...
...rock. Unfortunately, Queen's lyrics are not the stuff of sonnets. In Death On Two Legs, Mercury hurls a series of enunciated curses: "You suck my blood like a leech ... you're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride." The song, Mercury says with a smile, shows him in "one of my docile moods...