Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce it barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand: we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging...
...kind of supernal sylvan grace, Barnes by simply refusing to die. Elias is Jesus crossed with Jim Morrison. He will literally take a load off Chris' shoulders, or share a fraternal toke with Chris through the barrel of a rifle, or moon over the night stars, or smile ingenuously at his killer. He is hard to know and harder to destroy, a creature of Stone's wild literary sentiment. Barnes, who says of some fresh corpses, "Tag 'em and bag 'em," has no sentiment at all. When he pulls a steaming metal shard out of a wounded G.I.'s side...
...They lend beauty and fragrance to the surroundings," he says, while sitting on the terrace of his Marbella house overlooking Gibraltar. "They are also intelligent hostesses. I challenge anyone to come forward and prove that I ever told him the girls are available for sex," he says with a smile and a wink...
...Iranian's military plans. "The Shah was timid with women," Khashoggi says, "and liked to impress them by telling them exciting secrets." Khashoggi himself coached the women on how to guide the conversation to areas of particular interest. "They always came back with valuable intelligence," he says with a smile...
Although he likes the exposure that the Science Center "gallery" provides, a major reason he brings work in is that he has no room for it at home. "I think it was Picasso," he says with a smile, "who bought chateaus to put his work in, when he filled one up he'd buy another. I don't have that kind of money, so I put my work here...