Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phoenix is intense; he never smiles. He's uncompromisingly, darkly sincere. In fact, everyone in the movie looks just a little depressed, as if someone had told them that it is improper to smile a lot in a movie that treats Serious Subjects. The movie's best scene takes place when it loosens up during a birthday party for Annie. The family and Lorna start singing James Taylor's "Fire and Rain...
Although the extinction of the fine art of lying ought to be lamented, public figures can still get by without the ability to lie. Look at Ronald Reagan. All you have to do is flash your charming smile and let your sincere but vague manner show through, and you too could acquire his Teflon coat of armor. Perhaps he should market his secret. It could make him millions, as well as provide us with a new generation of truly effective leaders who could, in all sincerity, say (and not break into peals of laughter) "Let's do this...
...George. You turn to Dukakis and say, 'Governor, you call yourself a patriot, but I bet you don't even know the fourth verse of our national anthem.' " The sessions in the Dukakis camp are no doubt equally substantive. "Mike, this isn't public TV. You've got to smile. Now try it again: 'Let me help you with that, George Herbert Walker...
...Montreal Games, it was a long-limbed brooding Rumanian, Nadia Comaneci, who stole hearts by posting the first perfect 10s ever in Olympic gymnastics competition. Then in Los Angeles in 1984, American Mary Lou Retton bounced + into our living rooms with her big vault and still bigger smile, assuring her place in the pantheon of gymnastics greats and on boxes of Wheaties...
...comes to expressive faces, the finish line has nothing on the living room. Not every Olympic event compels every watcher, but every winner does. Some people can blithely read a book during the actual competition, but they have to glance up at the victory lap, and they almost always smile. To be the best at something, the best in the world...