Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underneath the big top, with the greatest of delicacy and the easy smile of a star, Dick Withington is juggling invisible Indian clubs. Up goes his left hand: "16,000." Down goes his left hand and up goes his right hand: "17,000." Left hand again, supple and rock steady: "18,000." His knees are slightly bent, his weight well forward. His voice as he calls off the ascending prices is clear and controlled, the even numbers chanted a couple of notes higher than the odd. There is no trace of strain. He can keep the bidding on this early...
...first, in 1949, and like other dealers, she credits him with putting on the best show around and with being fair. He will not offer pieces with reserve, or minimum, prices, for instance, and does not accept phone-in bids. Does Withington guarantee what he sells? Mrs. Lomas smiles a gentle, deal-the-cards smile and explains that in the antiques business there are no guarantees. Which does not mean there is no honesty. On a hunch, the day before, Dan Hingston, Withington's veteran auction manager, had unscrewed the brass drawer pulls of an inlaid, bowfront bureau...
...sporting a crimson-colored bow tie, Sissela Bok, and Francis H. Burr '35, chairman of the 350th Anniversary Cooutsideon, met the Prince and then proceded into Memorial Hall. The president greeted the Prince with a slight bow and flashed a wide grin in response to media requests for a smile...
...dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their women from wild animals." As for the French, who didn't invent love but certainly know how to market it, they negotiate their affairs with a roue's smile and a fatalist's shrug. C'est l'amour...
Lauren achieved something of pop-star status during the 1970s. It started after he began displaying his engaging smile in advertisements in 1974, when Saks Fifth Avenue asked him to appear in a print ad for the store's Polo boutique. Lauren, 5 ft. 5 or so, projected considerable well-tanned sex appeal. In the same year he designed the male wardrobe for the opulent remake of The Great Gatsby, which starred Robert Redford. In 1977 Lauren's creations attracted a further celebrity following when Diane Keaton adopted them in a layered, tomboyish look for Woody Allen's Annie Hall...