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When they were not firing muskets loaded with rusty nails into each other's faces, they were engaged in a competitive warmth-out -- Michael Dukakis trying furiously to grin, with meager results; Bush's grin wandering, with random abundance, all over his face and off into the air. Given his wrinkles (and his plight), Lloyd Bentsen's grin was hard to distinguish from a wince. Off to the side, Dan Quayle was giving high school students his version of the Stephen Sondheim lyric "Lovely is the one thing...
...been broken." So allowed an impassive Mikhail Gorbachev as he stood beside a wooden-faced Helmut Kohl amid the czarist splendor of the Kremlin's St. George Hall. The Soviet leader's chilly assessment of his first private meeting with the West German Chancellor brought little warmth to the thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and West Germany. But that hardly mattered in the cold calculation of national interests that dominated four days of careful, even curt talks between Europe's two pre-eminent powers. Gorbachev's impoverished military superpower is keen to profit from Western investment and trade...
King was greeted with warmth and respect at the October 20 party. Sporting his ever-present bow tie, the soft-spoken King reflected on his bittersweet experience in Boston politics...
George Bush and Dan Quayle materialize on the stage in brilliant early fall sunshine. Great cheers, but little warmth for Quayle, who walks on like an inexplicable mistake in the illusion...
...vectors point downward, as if gravity were pressing on him especially hard. Even the words that leave his lips seem to have weights on them. When he says, as he often does in a speech, "My friends," the expression carries a curious gravamen of reproof or irony -- but no warmth. His speeches, however, have much of his body's compactness and concision and a certain driving force about them...