Word: smiley
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Laughing Cavalier, Trumble's book leaves you with a heightened awareness of the smile's subliminal power. As you read this, buses around Sydney are advertising cider with a sepia photo of grave-faced frontiersmen: they saved their smiles for happy hour; while emails zip around cyberspace with the smiley emoticon of colon-dash-parenthesis. "The smile, meanwhile, is getting broader, wider, fiercer," writes Trumble. And, as his book attests, more subversive than ever...
...human drama inside a pulp paperback. He helped invent a new kind of novel, the literary thriller, and devised one to speak to the anxious pace, global scale and deadly stakes of 20th century geopolitics. Spy and the books that followed it, notably those starring the fictional spymaster George Smiley, laid bare the ticking watchwork of power and subterfuge that underlies our daily lives and established Le Carre as one of the principal fictional chroniclers of modern politics...
...shades of gray for a palette of clear-cut black and white. He has taken a stand. "I have a kind of middle-class constituency of fans who don't want me shaking the bars," he says, smiling sadly. "This is uncomfortable; this isn't ambivalent. This isn't Smiley saying 'Well, this is really tough, what we're doing, but I'll carry my horse uphill.' This is Smiley saying 'F___ this! This has got to stop!'" He laughs delightedly, but he is in no way joking. "There was something that I could not look away from. I felt...
...normally staid Benny explained why he opted to have a steel ring pierced through the head of his beloved member and out of the end of his urethra as the first decoration on his otherwise unadorned, pasty white body. “Actually, I wanted a tiny yellow smiley face tattoo on the inside of my wrist,” Benny confesses. “But, no matter how small the tattoo, I realized there was still a chance Mom might see it one day—I knew she’d never see this,” said...
...that he has been hanging out with the wrong political crowd. He ought to quit spurning the hand of welcome and start working toward a liberal majority. It will be better for the country, better for the environment, better for the economy and better for him. JANE SMILEY Carmel Valley, Calif...