Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the robbers are rather intriguing. Last year's "Yankee Bandit," so called for the New York Yankees baseball cap he wore during his robberies, invariably broke into a broad smile as he left with his loot. He robbed 55 banks in six months for a total take...
American movies are male; French films are female. Hollywood has always been a tough-guy's town, with its strutting moguls and its smile-when-you-call-me-an-artist directors. And the virtues it has traditionally valued are masculine ones: energy, efficiency, power, animus, each melodramatic plot resolved with a sock to the jaw. From French films one has come to expect delicacy, grace, comradely tenderness, a ruminative intelligence. Their directors seem to inhabit an exalted sorority where girlish high spirits, sage whispers and rueful endearments reverberate in the hallways. So leave it to French Film Maker Diane...
Mick Jagger would smile on the Harvard women's water polo team. Over the last four years the aquawomen have struggled and finally proved the crooner's adage that you get what you need...
...witness in the Solano County, Calif., Municipal Court was a twelve-year-old girl named Amy, and Judge John DeRonde was cold and impersonal as he asked her to take the oath and testify. The girl, neatly dressed in jeans and a white blouse, replied with a nervous smile that she would not. The startled judge and prosecutor explained that the law required Amy to take the witness stand. Again she politely refused...
...describe this?" the woman asked the poet. Akhmatova said she could. "Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face...