Sharon Duncan-Brewster is a beautiful, utterly persuasive Stella: generous, widely smiling and limber, sliced open by love of her husband.
"I don't want to do this anymore," said Bonnie, smiling and holding a slice of raw potato to her jaw.
So coveted was the region in World War II that in one video, Nazi generals can be seen presenting Hitler with a cake of the Caspian Sea, with the smiling Führer cutting a slice labeled "Baku".
The oily, crisp brown crust, thick cheese that hung like a garland from the smiling mouth to the greasy slice.
From one of those Buddhas comes a set of detached hands; from another a sliced-off, beatifically smiling face.
The perpetrators show off for the camera, smiling for close-up shots, slicing at the victims' backs, then stabbing them and bashing them with large slabs of masonry.
And what emerged, as those bows sliced against strings, and as smiling mouths puffed into brass tubes, was a swell of ecstatic sound that could have been the soundtrack to another welcome, a welcome that the whole world was watching.
"I'll have a slice of cake tonight," said Schofield, smiling.
Sure enough, at some point you yield to that slice of orange pecan torte with lemon frosting smiling at you from the dessert tray.
Soon Darnell emerged, wearing street clothes, with a slice of pizza and a Coke in either hand, smiling, just a boy with a dream.
