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...have a snapshot of myself from the spring of ninth grade, posing next to the John Harvard statue with a giant smirk on my face. I wanted it documented on film that Harvard and I were not a good match...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Lucky To Be Here | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

Before the play, I saw him, he saw me. We had been friends once. We exchanged perfunctory greetings, but the smirk on his face told me he knew my five-minute drive across town couldn't quite match the coolness of his Jack Kerouac move...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: A Sonnet in Vain | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

...symbol is known as a swoosh, but it could also be interpreted as a smirk. Like the one on the face of Jones, who has countersued the N.F.L. for $750 million after the league sued him for $300 million for selling the Cowboy name to companies like Nike. Or the smirk on the face of coach Barry Switzer, who can laugh at those who called him a buffoon, now that the Cowboys are favored by two touchdowns to beat their traditional rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in Super Bowl XXX, Jan. 28 in Tempe, Ariz. Or the smirk on the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGLY AMERICA'S TEAM | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

Garcia does not make an honest effort to differentiate the brothers from each other. Different outfits are the only things to distinguish the roles. Garcia plays both parts with a smirk on his face, believing that his own good looks will...

Author: By Christine Pui, | Title: Steal Big, Steal Little | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

With her ample jowls and round, beamish face, she looks a bit like Benny Hill--without, of course, the late British comic's leering smirk. Her voice is high-pitched, nasal and a trifle slurred, her frequent laugh a piercing cackle. At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHER KNOWS BEST | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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