Word: smileyness
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...Tercentennial Steering Committee, which includes Yale College Council President Elizabeth H. Smiley, guided the planning for the celebration...
...break with suburban women. It isn't only her hunger for the job; she just doesn't come across as genuine. It is hard for people to tell what's true when you can't talk about the things most important to you and have to put a smiley face on one of the toughest political marriages in history. When she says she felt like a newlywed unpacking boxes in Chappaqua, it rings hollow. Does she really relish the prospect of rattling around in the huge empty house on her own? When she says, "It takes a village," doesn...
...paperweight caper in The Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...
...name DivX--the official spelling is DivX;-), with a winky smiley face--is geek gallows humor. It's named after a home-video format that died an ignominious and expensive death last year. The new DivX, developed by French hackers, turns theatrical movies into relatively small computer files that can be transferred over the Internet. To do this, the movie is copied off an ordinary DVD using a program called DeCSS. (The legal status of DeCSS is a gray area, to put it mildly; one of its distributors is currently in court for violating copyright law.) In the next step...
...that soccer mom who's had it up to here with Hillary couldn't have put it better! But the ink on the letter was barely dry before Lazio was trying to put a smiley face above the i in his signature. "Frankly," Lazio said, always a tip-off that a politician is about to fog up your glasses, "these letters are written, you know, not by me." Riding on his newly christened Mainstream Express, he went on to explain, "It's not what you send some donor list that matters. What matters is how you are conducting yourself...