Their shop steward has called them to a meeting and his manner - unsmiling and full of importance - tells them the matter is serious. Behind him, several managers sit in an office, pretending not to be interested.
"They'll need to answer to themselves and their people as to why they've turned down a realistic and sensible plan to achieve negotiations," the president said, standing alongside an unsmiling Shamir during a White House departure ceremony.
But Republican George Bush, who will face Dukakis in the fall as the Republican nominee, would love to make the comparison stick in the minds of voters: Dukakis as an unsmiling Jimmy Carter.
Andrei A. Gromyko's unsmiling countenance and staunch, party line positions personified the Soviet Union for nearly three decades.