Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea festered in the screenwriter's mind and the former governor of Georgia moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Henry's smile could only have been matched by the new president's. There stood James Earl Carter--a veritable personification of incompetence--garbed in v-neck sweater to save energy, hiring an adviser on drugs who pushed quaaludes, and journeying to Poland to declare, through the mouth of an interpreter, his true lust for the Polish people. Meanwhile, as the director of the Office of management and Budgets stole millions from Atlanta banks, the president's right hand man was spitting...
...anxious relatives and other angry and frustrated Americans were permitted to see only a fleeting-and heavily edited-TV film clip of 16 of the hostages meeting the monsignor and three Iranian clergymen. There was no sound track. While a few of the Americans appeared to laugh or smile briefly, the general mood seemed somber. Americans at home could only wonder: Why were there no voices? How did the hostages really feel? Where were the others? Fears in the U.S. grew again...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
...West Wing office of Richard Nixon's White House there was an audacious wall decoration: a large photograph of a broadly smiling Ronald Reagan, who had challenged Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. nomination. Moreover, the occupant of the office, Nixon's director of the Office of Management and Budget, often proudly pointed to both Reagan's grin and the handwritten inscription under it: "The smile is for real, thanks to you. In friendship and warm regards, Ron." Said the OMB boss to one visitor: "Now, there is a man who really knows how to cut budgets...
While Reagan made two forays out of his Pacific redoubt to remind the world of his smile and desire to work with Congress and other powerful people, he has talked very little. The flow of commentary on appointees, world events and national issues that Presidents-elect in other times have been lured into has been avoided. His image is compressed and contained, drawn deliberately and somewhat vaguely as the power that is felt behind the stage, emerging only for the big bows. That protected position also helps reduce wear and tear on a President who truly intends to change directions...