The diminutive brunette then turns 21 and her debut single, Smile, plunges straight into the charts at No 1.
You can comb through thousands of photographs of politicians, soldiers, and the like from Lincoln's time and not find a single smile.
The governor entered the packed chamber with nary a handshake for the hundreds of lawmakers and other officials who had assembled to hear him speak, and did not crack a single smile during his 30-minute address.
Viewers of "The Killers," in 1946, saw Ava Gardner swivel on a piano stool, greet Burt Lancaster, size up the poor lunk, and let him know with a single smile, to his infinite delight, that he was doomed.
The album followed a No. 1 single, "Smile," a lilting reggae confection that sounds so sunny on first listen that it is shocking to realize that it is a vengeful goodbye to a contrite cheater.
Mr. Bellocchio, the writer and director of "The Wedding Director," allows him a single smile in the course of the film, but like a Buster Keaton hero, the actor refuses mirth in part to provoke the audience's laughter.
