And in liquor stores, the faces of happy Hasidim — more than you'll now see in a lifetime in Lublin or Bialystok — stare out from bottles of Polish kosher vodka, prized for its supposed purity.
This may be the face of the happy marriage, circa 2006, when according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 30percentt of Americans own laptops.
Photograph: Grigory Dukor/Reuters 5.14pm BST The face of someone happy with his gold medal, Etienne Stott of Great Britain celebrates after the Men's Canoe Double Slalom final.
The report by the Economic Policy Institute, released last week at a briefing attended by Ms. Ehrenreich, flies in the face of the happy talk we've heard for so long about how well American families are doing.
To these women and to all the women I love who are changing the face of politics: Happy Valentine's Day.
Those who knew Torres best say he was a master manipulator who put on the face of a happy, goofy scene kid.
Haughty and cool and willing to exploit others where his plans require it, he refers to himself as a "high-functioning sociopath," and, in an almost sentimental moment, admits that he is "dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful and uncomprehending in the face of the happy".
The open drug use - "marijuana keeps that smile upon my face," sings Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays - is another kind of escapism (and one that might not migrate to the United States in the just-say-no era).
Downstairs is more comfortable, with tables and a bar behind which a handsome, bearded and tattooed chap (well, duh) in floury T-shirt rolls fat worms of pici throughout our meal, his face a mask of happy concentration.
Still, the long day here — covering miles of wintry tracks — was rewarding, replete with smiling faces of people happy to be exploring China's magnificent scenery on a more micro level.
