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Walker, Alice
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......realization. Among her other novels are Meridian (1976), The Temple of My Familiar (1989), By the Light of My Father's Smile (1994), and Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004). Her short-story collections include You Can't Keep a Good Woman......
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Chevalier, Maurice
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......As the dancing partner of Mistinguett and as the star of several Paris music halls, he won his public by his charm and inimitable smile; by 1928 his reputation was international. He became famous for his portrayal of the debonair man-about-town, typically sporting......
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Grossman, David
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......Grossman's dissatisfaction with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza resonates throughout his first novel, The Smile of the Lamb (1983, tr.1991, film 1986) and first nonfiction book, The Yellow Wind (1987, tr. 1988), which is based......
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Machiavelli, Niccolò
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......History of Prudence (1987); P. S. Donaldson, Machiavelli and the Mystery of State (1989); M. Vitoli, Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli (2000); R. King, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power (2007)....
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Ronaldinho
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......agile attacking forward has been a footballer since childhood. Known almost as much for his sunny personality and unfailing smile as for his superb soccer skills, he has a rare combination of technique and speed. He joined the pros in his teens, becoming......
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Sinatra, Frank
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......causing teenage girls to shriek and swoon over his romantic, seemingly casual renditions of such songs as "I'll Never Smile Again" and "This Love of Mine." During his long career he became one of the most successful pop music figures of the century......
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Etruscan art
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......lids of sarcophagi often represented a single figure or a couple reclining on a couch. These figures wore the haunting archaic smile evident in early Greek sculpture. The amazingly naturalistic Etruscan portrait busts were probably a source for later Roman......
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Rhys, Jean
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......Jane Eyre from the perspective of Rochester's mad West Indian wife. It was followed by three short-story collections and Smile Please (1979), the first volume of an autobiography. See biographies by C. Angier (1990) and L. Pizzichini (2009......
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Temple, Shirley
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......and Cheer!) in 1934. An accomplished singer and dancer, little Shirley, with her golden curls, dimples, and dazzling smile, became one of the era's best-loved personalities and a Hollywood box-office champion. Her many screen hits include......
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dolphin (aquatic mammal)
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......breathe air through a single, dorsal blowhole.The dolphin's intelligence, playfulness, and friendliness, its built-in smile and merry-looking eyes have been a source of interest and enchantment to human beings from earliest times; it is a common......