Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard football Coach Joe Restic scans the page his brow furrows and then his eyes begin to glaze. As he reads and rereads the column of penciled in names. Restic can't suppress a smile the one you get when you've cursed the darkness long enough but you still don't have a match...
Writer Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers) and Director Costa-Gavras (Z) know how to use movie archetypes to manipulate political loyalties. The Israeli prosecutor has the superior smile of a bureaucrat conquistador. The Palestinian is tall, thin, suntanned, nice to babies; and he has unflinching crystal blue eyes (would they lie to you?). And yet, the film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna...
...parent's grief or fear when a child lies near death. Somehow, though, such a situation proves even more disturbing when a mother must compose a flyer that begins, "Please help this little girl live!!" The emphasis provided by the photograph of Jorie on that flyer--her wide, radiant smile stretches towards bright, clear eyes--makes the exclamation points seem almost unnecessary...
...candidate, who said he is trying to smile more, appeared downright jubilant at the parade, where he was followed by about 30 supporters, who alternately chanted. "Gimme that ole rainbow spirit"--a reference to the King campaign's description of its voting coalition--and "Mel King para alcalde [for mayor...
...Great Hall, the Chinese leader ex plained that he hears best with his left ear. Would the U.S. Defense Secretary be kind enough to sit on that side? asked Deng. Weinberger obliged, adding felicitously that he hears best with his right ear. "Aha," said Deng with a smile, "we have a good basis for cooperation...