Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having compromised his family and country, John entered the courtroom with a broad smile. Michael rocked in his chair at the defense table and turned to grin at his wife Rachel and sister Margaret. Father and son seemed to avoid eye contact. After they took turns pleading guilty to espionage charges, their attorneys successfully urged the judge to accept a plea- bargaining agreement they had made with the Justice Department...
...faintly sad piping of a calliope, a pair of new extremes have cast unusually shaped shadows across the face of sport, causing it to break out in a smile of unexpected dimensions. One is a basketball player of 7 ft. 7 in. but just 208 lbs., the other a football player of 308 lbs. but just 6 ft. 2 in. Since their sideshow duties extend to the legitimate arena, neither is an Eddie Gaedel, the baseball midget of 1951 with "a strike zone barely visible to the naked eye." But both are Primo Carneras from boxing's '30s, outsize attractions...
Only a few hours earlier, Rupert Murdoch had confided to a visitor that he has no particular fondness for Hollywood's social circuit. But a show- business mogul must put on a good show. So there he stood last month sipping Perrier at a Beverly Hills reception, flashing a smile and chatting comfortably with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dino De Laurentiis. Stars and studio bosses had all turned out. The party, in honor of Murdoch and his wife Anna, was the perfect opportunity for everyone to size up the Australian-born newspaper tycoon who has become America...
...Cossack logic"--when they shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with 269 people aboard? The Americans over the Mediterranean were Sisters of Mercy by comparison. They accomplished a bloodless citizen's arrest of terrorists at 34,000 ft. Cowboy logic? One imagines Reagan crinkling a little and replying, "Smile when you say that...
Miyake's face creases into the sort of smile that should come in a gift box. "Great!" he says, grabbing his companion in a tight hug, as if some souvenir sphinx had suddenly surrendered a secret. To all the patrons in the hotel lobby, it looks as if old friends were reuniting at the end of a long trip; in fact, any voyage with Issey Miyake is ongoing. "Next time I make like that, and you do something different again," he laughs. "Always fresh, always different, always challenge. That way is best, I think. Want...