Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour, Stockman rehearsed the toughest questions his aides could throw at him about the whole affair. Then he went off to face an overcrowded room full of reporters in the refurbished White House press quarters. He looked pale and frightened at first, his attempt at a wan smile quickly fading. Twice he paused in his prepared apology, gulping to regain control of his emotions...
...Most people here realize the trade-offs that come with partying," your friend Norman is saying. "They really would, in the best of all possibly worlds, like not to be grinds, but they will always like to be prepared for class." Norman gives you a knowing smile, perceiving astutely that you, in your three short hours at Yale, have done more drinking in New Haven bars than he has in his two years there, not including the advanced-standing credit the admissions office gave him. "That's right,"Norman's friend Mike chimes in, sensing an easy few points scored...
...vintage Khan; Khan loved it, the crowd loved it. The referee allowed himself a small smile. The only person not particularly amused was Khan's opponent, Desaulniers...
...authentic human spirit. She also makes me laugh." And the smile in Hepburn's voice breaks into the chime of an unself-conscious laugh?for, surely, the woman being described is not only Ethel Thayer but Katharine Houghton Hepburn...
JACK NICHOLSON must be viewed as dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo, and to our ideal of an untarnished hero. He has energy. He has charm. His brittle smile can be the most unsettling experience in cinema. His characters seek the unanswerable. He can love and kill in a single breath. Like a glass time-bomb, intricate and wired, he is capable at any instant of erupting into wicked, verbal violence...