Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced by John C. Wilson) juts up above the messy season's other musical exhibits, but is still slightly below see level. It is tasteful and tuneful, has some pleasant performers, an agreeable look. Even so, it is too much like a rubber ball that is new, pretty, smooth-and just won't bounce...
...Nationalists. Events have already brought trim, smooth-talking Soekarno a luxurious house in Batavia's European section. There he gladly poses for homey pictures with his beautiful Javanese second wife and ten-month-old son. He brushes aside queries about his anti-Allied broadcasts and his wartime trip to Japan by claiming that he merely cooperated to get concessions for his people. If the interviewer keeps on questioning him about collaboration, there is usually an intermission while handsome Indonesian girls serve cakes and hot ginger water...
...around legally and still make it hurt plenty. Above all, Army has the two best backs to come down the pike in years. One is a human blockbuster named Felix ("Doc") Blanchard. The other is a jet-propelled gent named Glenn ("Junior") Davis. They make Army's cream-smooth T attack bubble and boil like no other T in the land...
...routine bang-bang adventure yarn. Its high emotional charge is due to Author Simonov's sensitive observation of the people who fought in Stalingrad's streets. Russians have already bought 400,000 copies. The Book-of-the-Month Club has selected Joseph Barnes's smooth translation for November...
...Erskine's smooth rationalization of the Resurrection: "The miracle . . . was in the transformation of the apostles. The spirit of Jesus went with them all their days, until it seemed that in them he was risen from the dead...