But I stood my ground, smiled and tried to win the point by not doing anything.
The Mona Lisa was completely undamaged because it is isolated in a vitrine designed to resist gunfire, let alone a ceramic cup, and as security men wrestled the attacker to the ground, Lisa smiled on.
One highlight is Dame Shirley's description of a young Native American woman: "With a mocking grace infinitely bewitching she sat upon the ground and smiled up into my face".
When the ebullient young woman behind the cash register at the grocery store dropped my apple on the ground, she smiled nervously, picked it up and put it in my bag, but said nothing.
This short, sly man leaned on the Coca-Cola hoarding that marked the entrance to the village and raised a hand in friendly greeting, while his companion took the small stick that he had, up to that point, been chewing, threw it on the ground, and smiled.
The vocational students milled about in their corridor, sullen and even hostile, and some of the boys stood their ground when Hudson tried, smiling, to shoo them out.
"Before I even hit the ground, I was almost smiling," he said.
The Magic sharp-shooter stumbled to the ground and got up smiling.
Thompson losing ground in both surveys is probably not the reason he's smiling.
