Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a wry smile, Preston Davenport 78, looks over the dwindling crowd. In 35 Octobers here, his Ayrshires and Holsteins have won a slew of blue ribbons, anc he has come to know a thing or two abou fairgoers. "Everyone has been saying how much they are going to miss it," he says quietly. "But, you'll see. In a month or so they'll be onto something else." That is the comfort of progress-and its regrettable price. -By Joelle Attinger
...Everything happens--all my movement, what I do, what I say." But this particulars night, a little more than the unexpected occurs. Between songs, a derelict shuffles through the limited space separating Meyreles and the crowd, halting everything. In front of the musician, the lowlife makes a hollow, pathetic smile. He turns away and quickly scoops coins from the money-laden guitar case...
...does not expand our portrait of Dr. King. Angelou writes even worse sentences when she describes meeting, with relief, a Black American man during her long stay in Egypt: "He was of one piece. His eyes were almond-shaped, his face long and gently molded into an oval, his smile was long and thin, and he was the color of a slightly toasted almond." Apparently, Angelou could not forget the man's texture, so she runs the almond image into the ground...
...have doubled in the last two years, but I still view the entry of the cultural cables as a challenge. We will have to provide programs that, the audiences can't get elsewhere." Viewers, whose careers and livelihoods are not at stake, may be excused a small, smug smile as they prepare for the battle to come. They can look forward not only to something good to watch, but to a whole lot of good somethings...
HOLY CROSS 49, BROWN 35: "Smile if it kills you," she crooned in "Too Good To Throw Away," and Crystal's advice is taken to heart by Brown's John Anderson, who still has the league's best post-game conferences...