Ko and Porter are pictured above smiling almost exactly one year ago, just after the acquisition closed.
It wasn't an unfriendly smile, exactly, not cruel or condescending.
The guests were ushered aboard by female attendants in Pan Am-style pillbox hats and pencil skirts; each attendant, according to regulations, had to be at least five feet five inches tall, and was trained to smile with exactly eight teeth visible.
The beach was deserted, and I eased into the swaying hammock and smiled, knowing exactly how I would have spent my time if we had stayed any longer on Palm Island.
The difference was Sharon - who seemed unable to stop smiling - got exactly what he wanted.
He was not exactly smiling, but his eyes held deep amusement.
"It was just a question of how long it would take before it happened," Mr. Tocci, not exactly smiling, said while standing outside his family's old waste collection warehouse near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the Tocci Brothers logo is still visible underneath a thin layer of gray paint.
In one photo of the show's writing staff, he stands near the back, mustached and not exactly smiling; he looks like a man who doesn't want to be there, and maybe he didn't.
She's not the prominent Senator, or the established New York Times reporter, she's not the celebrity or the student made-good and returned to campus as tenured professor, but she's still smiling and looks exactly like she did in the fall of 1984, a Golden Girl.
"Do you smoke crack cocaine?" a reporter asked, prompting the smiling mayor to reply: "Exactly".
