Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially true in an era of unprecedented media exposure. The once fresh face and crisp, new manner have be come familiar as the local grocer's. What may have been entertaining idiosyncrasies, like Truman's salty language, Eisenhower's chronic golfing and Carter's reflexive grin, can become slightly irritating. No longer larger than life, as on the triumphant eve of Inauguration, the mid-term President starts looking all too vulnerably human...
...smooth melodies and brassy punctuation. The crowd, decked out in its spikiest heels and slinkiest skirts, danced beneath a huge electric American flag, which blinked red, white and blue to Basie's beat. Meanwhile, Dizzy Gillespie, 60, was on hand at Avery Fisher Hall, with his mischievously cherubic grin, his horn angled rakishly at the sky to let fly with Manteca, one of his Latin favorites...
...FACE was perfect: the manic popeyes gleaming out from the chubby idiot-mask, the lunatic grin flashing defiance at the hundreds of policemen who had spent over a year pursuing him. It was a knowing grin. David R. Berkowitz, popularly known as the Son of Sam, was--as the New York Post's predictably tasteless blood-red headline proclaimed--Caught!, but he hardly looked like a man who was ready to pay for his sins. Berkowitz seemed instead to realize that he was about to become the biggest media sensation of a hot and stickily depressing summer--John Travolta with...
...support Carter's proposal on plane sales to the Middle East, and outraged the powerful Jewish lobby. Last week, smarting from the blows he received over the plane deal, Howard dropped in at the White House for a chat with Jimmy. "Mr. President," he said with a grin, "I'm tired of doing the right thing...
...down-home night at the White House, and the President hammed it up as emcee. "This is not my regular line of work," he drawled, and added with a grin: "Some people might think I do this better." On hand for both a concert and an impromptu jam session were country performers who had twanged for Carter on the campaign trail, including Tennessee's Charlie Daniels. "When I was broke and didn't have any money for my campaign," recalled Jimmy, "Charlie Daniels gave a benefit performance for me. I might not be President today without his help...