Word: smiling
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...born dull, but they're quick studies. It is a generally held country principle that rough edges translate into lower sales, so record labels often send their most promising acts to media-training schools for a good dulling down. The stars of the future are then taught how to smile with lots of teeth, tilt their hats at the proper roguish--but not too roguish--angle and repeat variations on the "I'm just so glad to be making the music I love" palaver that plays between videos on Country Music Television. On her first day at media school...
...actors are fully alive to the inherent romance. Northam, as in The Winslow Boy and Gosford Park, so easily embodies Randolph's upper-class elegance that you might never know it had gone out of style. Ehle, the most beguiling of young Brit actresses, uses her tight smile to convey the pained radiance in Christabel's wisdom. These actor-poets make love like chamber music--two cellos playing each other. "Did you not flame," Christabel asks Ash, "and I catch fire?" When Possession finds its true home, lodging in the convulsive certitude of Victorian romance, it does indeed catch fire...
...traditional white turban and a green duster draped from neck to ankles, he insists that both the state's Muslims and non-Muslims (about five percent of the population) will welcome the new system. "The important issue is the wisdom of the law," he says with a cold smile. "Islamic laws will prove to be wiser and will make people repent and not repeat their criminal acts." If you are planning a trip to Terengganu, you might want to bring your piety with you-and leave the bikini at home...
...smile at his take on bad romances And moisten at his love poems to Frances. One couplet I'm so adamant to save, I might have it engraved upon my grave...
Exquisitely rare is the news item that can induce a satisfied smile in both Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat. But both men have reason to cheer the passing of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist mastermind who, depending on who you believe, either killed himself or was shot dead this week in Baghdad. That's because in a 20-year career that began in 1974, Nidal's organization killed or wounded some 900 people in 20 different countries, making enemies both Arab and Israeli. Most of his victims were Israeli and European civilians, killed in an encyclopedia of terroristic manners: massacred...