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...interview, I went to get my copy of The Information signed, forgetting that I had taken notes for my review on the dedication page. "Martin Amis is really (I had written absent-mindedly in the margin)...SHORT." Martin Amis read that little inscription as he signed my book. He smiled at me with his brand new, ten-thousand dollar teeth; but it was a British smile, revealing nothing...
...yourself be subliminally tricked into getting a larger size and paying more. After a day of training at PACE (Pacific Academy of Courtesy and Excellence), I knew that if a customer asked for a drink, I must immediately say, "Large, Ma'am?" The customer, charmed by the smile and the seemingly unobtrusive suggestion, would succumb...
They returned to the trenchworks the next morning, New Year's Day. "We were crossing a bridge, and the Germans started shelling," she says. The smile fades. "One of my friends, her name was Galya, was hit. She died a little while later ." The smile is gone. Tears flow, moistening Zosimova's deeply wrinkled old cheeks...
...Science and Technology, Brigitte Mabandla. For the second time in a matter of weeks, she will be replacing Mandela's estranged wife Winnie, who was fired from the job, won it back and then was sacked for good. After the oath is administered, the President tells Mabandla with a smile, "I congratulate you again. I hope that this time there are no bumps in the course of your duties...
...Steve Martins, I leave 1000 "I told you so" cards, to be sent to all of his disbelievers. He heard those voices four years ago, and he's hearing them again. But the time will come, when he will need those cards, and then he will sit back and smile as he sends them all away...