Word: smirk
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...smile is just a smile," the song goes, but with polls showing Governor George W. Bush falling behind in the New Hampshire primary, and after two underwhelming debate performances, the smile with enough wattage to light the national Christmas tree has devolved into the Smirk. It is actually a full-body tic: a pressing together of the upturned lips with a shrug of the shoulders and a preening tilt of the head that signals the Governor is awfully pleased with himself...
...this smirk, this "I know something you don't" smile, pure catnip for journalists. And so there was always a gaggle of us around MARTA DORION, waiting for some tidbit to waft through her smoke-filled office, a last refuge for cigarette lovers here at TIME. Many who hated tobacco would suffer through nicotine haze just to listen. She'd been through Watergate, earthquakes and O.J., but those weren't the stories we were really interested in. It was the one she was living, the one we shared: the story of Time Inc. Marta's breadth of memory and experience...
...endemic to restaurants--that of the flip statement inclined to make you feel more comfortable, but which only ends up turning you off. I have often walked in there wearing, along with several others, a tuxedo, to which I always receive the question, asked with a smirk, "Hey, what are you celebrating?" I am tempted, by this point, to answer, "An employee who does his job--now make my burrito...
...Johnson, with a smirk on his face and a knowing look in his eye, said otherwise...
...Johnson, with a smirk on his face and a knowing look in his eye, said otherwise...