Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hampden's picture to the wall. The political history of Western civilization used to be considered as largely a matter of resistance to taxes. But now old Wat Tyler and Sam Adams go back to their cribs while the mature American faces taxes with a confident smile...
...popped out. Everyone laughed from sheer nervousness. At 4:25 the door opened once more and out stepped Winston Churchill, in striped pants, frock coat and topper. There was a sparse cheer or two, then suddenly the street rocked with three huge, earsplitting cheers of acclaim. A slight, sad smile crinkled the Churchillian features for a moment. Then, clamping firmly on his cigar, the Prime Minister climbed into his car and headed for Buckingham Palace...
...example, been allowed to be variations on Monteverdi all evening, as the introduction promised, the cumbersome charades might have had more point. As it was, they were discarded whenever a brighter prospect for a song or laugh presented itself and resurrected when the authors would settle for a routine smile: "I'm getting tired of these parties, the same old people, the same old drinks, and on the phonograph, last year's Gregorian chants...
...Foreign Minister Molotov without first getting Molotov's permission. Said Wyatt: "If we disapprove of anything [you] might have written, [you] would only lose [your] job, whereas the men in the Kremlin stand to lose their heads." Righteous indignation filled Churchill's voice, but a smile touched his lips: "I am surprised that the Honorable Gentleman should use question time for making offensive imputations on the Soviet government...
...hear the voice of the Lorelei." says Jean Cocteau in the album notes, ''but the Lorelei was a danger to be feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant kaleidoscope of expression...