Word: smiledness
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It was almost as though the candidates had heard and heeded the advice of Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She had phoned Carter Adman Gerald Rafshoon a few days before the debate to urge: "Style over substance. Style over substance." Carter was at first unsteady and stumbled over words. He wove sentences...
Some versions of hospitality from fellow wayfarers annoyed me. I rated special attention as a solitary woman, and older, perhaps more worldly-wise, members of my own sex tsked at me warningly or smiled enigmatically (An unsatisfactory verbal rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to...
The two men smiled as they emerged from the Elysée Palace last week and shook hands cordially on the marble steps. Only after President Valery Giscard d'Estaing had said farewell to Premier Jacques Chirac did a presidential spokesman announce to reporters that the Premier had just...
All week long Ford had gained stature mostly by doing nothing. His reaction to the frantic Reagan maneuvering had been low-key. Perhaps he had learned the old wisdom of Texan Sam Rayburn's curt advice: "The three most important words in the English language are 'wait a...
I froze. My adam's apple beat wildly against a seldom-worn and imperfectly-tied tie: "Well, sir, it's like some people read historical novels, they want to live in the past--I want to live in the future." I was sliding through it, wiping Vaseline on the pants...