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...would pay a man to come down from Ohio to do Lincoln. For years, people had been saying to Rubin, "Did anyone ever tell you you look like ..." So he approached Borror and asked what it took to become a Lincoln. "Within a year," Borror says with a rueful smile, "he had taken all the events I used to do in West Virginia...
...would be a sorrowful picture except for the fact that Lincoln's mouth is turned ever so slightly into a smile. The smile doesn't negate the sorrow. But it alters tragedy into grace. It's as if this rough-faced, aging man has cast his gaze toward eternity and yet still cherishes his memories--of an imperfect world and its fleeting, sometimes terrible beauty. On trying days, the portrait, a reproduction of which hangs in my office, soothes me; it always asks me questions...
...sign of vanity and therefore taboo. Others compile lists of the 70 people Islamic tradition says a "martyr" can guarantee a place in paradise. "I haven't got my 70 names yet--I don't think I know that many people," Marwan says, allowing himself a rare smile. Some dig graves for themselves and leave instructions on the way they should be buried--generally with simple headstones. Marwan says he won't need a grave: "If I am lucky, my body will be vaporized. There won't be anything left of me to bury...
...even the Kennedys could produce spring on demand, however, and the wedding day dawned damp and cool. But at the white clapboard St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church, as the jubilant bride arrived in a muslin silk and lace Marc Bohan gown, she had a sunny smile for crowds that had been gathering since before 9 a.m. Helping the bride with her 11-ft. train were her ten attendants, including her cousin Caroline Kennedy as maid of honor. Schwarzenegger had arrived the day before from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he had been shooting his latest film...
...Gorbachev who came to power in 1985 Pursuing the paramount impulse was a direct reaction to the Reagan of 1981-84. Andrei Gromyko, speaking for the gerontocrats of the Politburo, nominated the relatively youthful Gorbachev as the man who had a "nice smile" but "iron teeth." His comrades knew that Gorbachev would have to go up against the affable Great Communicator in the contest for the hearts and minds of the world. Because he was tough and might stay in office well into the next century, Gorbachev seemed the best choice to deal with all those doctrines and initiatives that...