Word: smileyness
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...same, nobody describes him as reserved. Jesse Cappachione, manager of the Midnight Sun, a bar in the gay Castro district, says that from 1990 to 1992 a well-dressed Cunanan turned up almost every night to buy drinks for everybody. "He was boisterous and always seemed to be smiley," says Cappachione. "His laugh was very distracting. You could hear it in almost every corner of the room...
...battle to reconcile House and Senate versions should wipe the smiley off his coat. The Senate's budget includes a measure raising the Medicare age from 65 to 67 and charging higher premiums to wealthy recipients; the House bill does not. (Though the Senate's provisions are expected to die quickly, reformers are glad such medicine has finally been proposed.) And though both House and Senate offer $135 billion in tax relief, including cuts in the estate and capital-gains tax as well as a per-child tax credit, the two versions distribute the cuts in different ways. While...
...deaf man was plying his trade on the 10 p.m. outbound train, selling miniature screwdrivers with the tags "Please support the deaf with a dollar donation" attached to them. The tag concluded with a disarmingly friendly sketch of the sign language symbol for smile and then a smiley face. The man walked haltingly up and down the train, placing a tool set on each empty seat, but each passenger pretended not to see him or unintentionally flinched as he came near. One would have thought the man contagious--and not merely deaf...
...Tavis Smiley, a cultural commentator and author of a collection of political essays, Hard Left, is worried about the effect Wallace's slaying will have on young rap fans: "The value of life is decreasing by the minute right in front of their eyes." Says Preston Williams, 21, a hip-hop fan and student at Howard University: "If these guys are getting killed over music, then it's the dumbest thing that I've experienced in my whole life. If these famous guys can die, who is to say that I won't be next?" Hopefully, gangsta rap fans will...
...when I shared this thought with Heather, a smiley waitress at the Tomorrow Land Terrace restaurant, she was quick to correct my impression...