Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial, and if that meant he needed new lawyers, so be it. The clash was ideological, not personal. The rapport between Kaczynski and defense attorneys Quin Denvir and Judy Clarke was clearly strong. Even at the height of their dispute, Kaczynski would confer with the two, often with a smile or a joking remark. He never recoiled when Clarke, a tall, thin woman who towers over him, patted his back or rested her arm on his chair back...
...with celebrity funerals turning into serious newsfare, Bono provided existential comic relief. For, despite being opera buffa, his life was as grand and as quintessentially American as those of the Massachusetts dynasts--but more exuberantly, more accessibly so. It was not carved like granite; it was curved like a smile. As his friend Tony Orlando the singer said last week, "They're flying a flag half-mast at the White House and all America is watching on TV for a guy who really started out delivering meat in a truck...
...quickly spurs the leaders of all nations to adopt measures even stricter than those agreed to in Kyoto, the tribunals are inevitable, and there will be nowhere for the guilty to hide. The earth is our mother and our child. What greater joy could there be than seeing her smile again? KEN BARNES Kanazawa, Japan...
...number of people would make J. Paul Getty smile and architect Richard Meier cringe. Fifteen years in the making, the new Getty Center, a complex of museums, gardens, auditorium and art research institute and its uniquely manicured space dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that...
...came down the hill, making my way out through the line forming for taxis and past the same uniformed woman, explaining to a guest that "You'll have to stand in a long line, from which you'll wait in another long line...," I could not help but smile--and despair. The Getty has succeeded as a museum for, and of, Los Angeles...