Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmade queen-size bed, dressed in faded jeans and a trailworn denim jacket, and nursing a tin of day-old Skoal and a bottle of worm-blessed Mexican tequila, Shepard rides the bed like a rundown rodeo star, and when he throws his girl May a particularly wistful smile, all the humor and pathos of Shepard's writing comes shining clean through...
...advance his presidential ambitions. He had been irked last January when his trip to South Africa had been put in a campaign context, and he feared that a tour this week of poverty areas in the U.S. would get similar treatment. For most people, Kennedy suggested with a smile, "the more important issue seems to be whether my weight is going up or down." (It has been going down, previously a surefire tip-off to political observers that he was preparing to run.) "I wanted to be President, and I still do," he conceded. "I would have been a strong...
...have turned the stereotype not just around but inside out. In a league that is 75% black, they are featuring eight white players on a twelve-man squad. It parodies the National Basketball Association's whispery days of racial quotas that Center Bill Russell once outlined with a sinister smile: "The general rule is you're allowed to play two blacks at home, three on the road and five when you're behind." Winning 19 games already this year before losing even four, the Celtics are seldom behind...
Avedon's emotional scale is weighted decisively on the darker end. There are shots of redoubtable-looking ranchers and honey-faced teens, but almost no one ventures a smile. Far more typical is a picture of a vulpine carnival worker with a chilling gaze. A Texas factory worker, wearing a birthday corsage of dollars, even looks as if she knows that she will end up on a museum wall as an emblem for the empty promises of the working life. In case we miss the point, Avedon throws in three bloody head shots of slaughtered % steers and sheep...
Remember those home movies your crazy uncle would show at big family events? Everyone would gather round the screen to laugh at Aunt Bertha's swollen thighs, smirk at cousin Damien's antics, and smile at Grandma Smith's sweet girlishness as she shied from the camera's probing lens. Everyone was thrilled and secretly proud and yet vaguely terrified to see themselves caught and fixed on screen...