Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring out the comic best in each other -- Matthau's bullying misanthropy, Lemmon's melancholic good cheer. It follows that they invest Grumpy Old Men, in which they play querulous neighbors, with an appeal that is nostalgic and, if you are a devotee of well- practiced shtick, technically seamless...
...gravely serious man in glasses and a dark suit moves and speaks like the polished trial lawyer he once was. In the dank humidity of an auditorium in the Massachusetts State House, he makes his case insistently, weaving numbers and exposition into a seamless argument. In the future, he says, 60% of the U.S. Navy's shipyard work will involve nuclear-powered vessels. More than half the ships in for repair will be submarines; most of those will be Los Angeles- class attack submarines. "The most experienced shipyard in servicing Los Angeles subs," he declaims, "is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...
This week America's richest and most famous computer nerd will unveil his latest venture: an office software system that could connect computers, phones, copiers, fax machines and printers into a seamless digital web, thus permitting them to exchange information and circulate documents electronically. The system -- based on Microsoft's wildly successful Windows software -- could lead to a new wave of advanced office machines that would, for example, allow someone to write a memo and instantly send it to the computer screens of his staff members, the photocopier down the hall, his boss's printer, and the fax machines...
...actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
...life of its own," he says. "You guide that life along like a platoon leader, getting everybody kind of enthused to charge the hill." To a relative newcomer like actress Frances Fisher, who plays the prostitute Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven and is Eastwood's current companion, it all seems seamless. "He is the most confident director I have ever seen. He kind of glides through it all." Distractions are kept to a minimum and posturing discouraged. "He says very little to you," says Hackman, whom Eastwood lured to play the sheriff in Unforgiven. "I appreciate that. Most of what directors...