Word: smiling
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...Humility through humiliation, that is. No matter what color your card, or how long you've been trudging up those Palais stairs and flashing your pearliest smile at the blue-coated security guards, there's always some party you can't sneak into, some venue you will be barred from (like today's Da Vinci Codepress conference). The signs read "Complet," which is French for "Get lost." Considered coolly, these aren't personal slights. No movie facility, not even the 2,400-seat Lumière with one of the world's largest screens, can contain 4,000 journalists, plus...
...hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence...
...Mercer, a founder of Capitol Records, also had three No. 1 hits as a vocalist: "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Candy" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" - a record, I believe, for a classic pop songwriter. The Savannah native with the gap-toothed smile was the author or co-author of more than 1,000 songs, which scaled the charts for 30 years, in the prime of the Great American Songbook. His songs lasted well into the Age of Rock, with '60s hits in revival (Bobby Darin's rockin' "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," Frank...
...eight-hour shift.ALL IN THE FAMILYSix of the seven newbies gathered on a spring afternoon two weeks ago to reflect on the divergent paths each took to become a University officer.For Angela A. Kerr, one of two women in the group, wearing a black pant suit and an affable smile, becoming a police officer meant accomplishing what her mother had not been able to do years earlier.Kerr worked with the University before donning the blue uniform. She says she wanted to see more action than the confines of the Holyoke Center could offer her.Matt M. Ferazzi of Plymouth, Mass., worked...
...McClellan kept his game face to the end. Asked if he would do anything differently knowing what he knows now, he replied with a smile, "I wouldn't tell you anyway...