Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson does temper his sometimes morbid accounts ("Someone could smile at me then/shake my hand then gun me down") with sprinkled humorous comments, often in background harmonies or spoken asides. He does this most effectively in "T.V. Age," a Talking Heads-style song about modern-day peoploids living their lives in front of the tube. Jackson cries...
...nightly monologue has evolved into a sequence of snappy asides that is virtually fail-safe. If the jokes hit home, fine. Carson will smile and bob his head and smooth his tie while the audience laughs. If the joke flies wide or falls flat, the audience will groan and Carson will look wounded, then drop some self-deprecating aside that, like a slow fuse, will finally ignite the gag. Dick Cavett, who worked for Carson as a writer, recalls that Carson "made a point of bombing and making it funny. Sometimes you'd write strictly for that...
...wore white gloves and a smile of innocent wickedness as she wheeled the little blue convertible around the cliffside curves above Monaco. For the right man, the elegant smile hinted, she might take the gloves off. She had been driving much too fast, because it had been necessary to outdistance the police, and Gary Grant, the reformed jewel thief sitting beside her, looked ill. But he perked up when she parked at a turnoff and produced a cold chicken picnic lunch...
...make the choice, "he replied with a faint smile...
...lettering. "New exercises for the NCLEX-RN (registered nurses' exam)! Straight from the latest ETS administration!" The hallway opens up into a lounge with food machines and a water cooler. Classroom and Test-N-Tape rooms branch out on all sides. Stanley watches silently from the news clipping photographs, smiling his kindly middle-aged person's smile...