Search Details

Word: smilingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...face fixed in a bronze smile, Chiang sits on a throne framed with famous quotations from his fabled life and surveys his memorial, his city, his island nation. His throne is on a great stone block; the block is in a large rectangular building with a purple pagoda-styled tile roof. The building sits atop a huge white-stone pyramid full of Chiang memorabilia--his letters, his glasses, his clothing, his medals. There are no servants for the afterlife; only a military honor guard to protect the bronze...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: More Than One Great Wall | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...talk was about the new meaning that Washington would now have. Fun and class would return to social events. The ageless chronicler of conservatives, Betty Beale of the Washington Star, was there with a wide smile. But there was something else in the mood at the Soviet embassy that bears watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Vodka Toast for Reagan | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...hosts projected an unusual warmth. Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who, with Reagan, will have served in the time of eight U.S. Presidents, greeted the thousand guests who had come for the 63rd anniversary of the revolution. He knew most of them personally. "Old friends," he said, beaming a great smile around the room. It seemed like a reunion from better times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Vodka Toast for Reagan | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...obsessed by her. To him she represents unattainable class: Lana Turner, in The Postman Always Rings Twice, to his John Garfield. Vickie is the silently smoldering platinum blond in a Bronxful of greasy brawlers and dark-haired tarts. He sees her gliding in slow motion through his jerky life, smiling mysteriously, bestowing a Queen Mother nod on some old friend. But what old friend? Why did she smile at him? Can it be she's fooling around with one of them Mafia bums? Or even with Joey? She can be. She must be. His Desdemona must be punished, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Animal House | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Memories of The Play don't bother Crone at all. "I smile, it's funny. I'm just glad I didn't drop the ball," he says. The three pro-league veteran doesn't mind telling the story either. "At least it got me into Sports Illustrated...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Whatever happened to . . . | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

Previous | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | Next