The Hearst empire was offering $2,000 for an interview and, after a while, a slight, pale, smiling young woman came forward.
The pale, shaky smile, the carefully preserved sophistication, the glib, hectic delivery all converge to make a rounded, original whole, half clown, half martyr".
It was October 2003, and the national broadcaster CCTV carried live coverage of the momentous event, from Mr. Yang's famous pleasantries uttered in space — "I feel good" — to the instant that workers opened the capsule door to reveal the pale but smiling face of a hero, offering irrefutable evidence that China's maiden manned space voyage had gone off without a hitch.
I see her superimposed against the desert sky, pale and smiling, peering out from beneath that jet-black Louise Brooks pageboy….
On Tuesday, a pale and smiling Spencer thanked the medical staffers who cared for him as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gathered him in a bear hug.
But her troubles, which she endures with a wry half-smile, pale in comparison with what Audrey Williams (Ms. Woodard) must put up with.
With her broadly smiling, pale human face and wiggling, red fish body, she looks a little like one of the girls that the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara likes to draw, minus the scowl.
On this perfect day, we used clam shells to make a sand motel, and, after rolling our pants to our knees, waded into the pale jade sea, smiling as frightened flukes leaped around us in shimmies of emerald.
Brydon, who is largely unknown in this country, has a long pale face, a Bugs Bunny smile, and pitted skin like that of his fellow-Welshman Richard Burton.
