I first ran across the amazing potential of a smile through the work of Mantak Chia, a Taoist master who brought many esoteric practices to the West in the 1980s.
Isolated, dislocated, scared: Smile often sounds like the work of a very lonely man.
In one work the smiling faces of astronauts who went to the Moon fall between an image of a grinning chimpanzee and a small picture of the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun; all are balanced by an outline of the artist's left foot — a small step for man.
With Give Me All You Got, Rodriguez will attract plenty of smiling faces while working to pull more listeners onto her bandwagon.
The word, at work, is "smiling".
I find it difficult to look at a lot of Picasso, especially his later work, without smiling.
Over images of factory employees hard at work and smiling families, an announcer says, "when a million jobs were on the line, every Republican candidate turned their back, even said, 'Let Detroit go Bankrupt.'" Then the commercial pivots to the president.
The gods of hard work finally smiled on Dalquist in 1966, when a Texan, Ella Helfrich, used the Bundt pan to bake her own creation, the Tunnel of Fudge cake, which won second prize in the Pillsbury Bake-Off.
She was there, working and smiling, on the morning of 9/11, when the airplanes came in low and fast and hard, devastating the twin towers.
I read his work, looked at the photos of a smiling family man, and wondered how anyone who was experiencing what he was experiencing could remain committed to the idea of living in this world.
