Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Casting of Ethel Scull" is old hat around here. Ten years or so ago, Bette and I cast our faces in plaster; I had to go first. The casting went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without...
...Three. There was reason for strain. The dinner was intended to smooth the way toward an agreement between the President and the general. But only hours earlier, Sukarno had been forced to go along with the appointment of a new military-civilian government whose key figures were picked by Suharto. A face-saving compromise, not unusual for such Javanese drama, had saved a few Sukarno associates for minor roles. But the men who would call the shots were Suharto, in charge of defense and security; brainy former Ambassador to Moscow Adam Malik, in charge of foreign affairs as well...
...suicide and murder, than a Mafia convention. None of the characters ever fully escape their enormous and restrictive obligations to the story. But for all that, the reader may find himself wistfully trying to swallow Benchley's preposterous tale, if only for the bouquet. Benchley writes with a smooth comic skill that is at least reminiscent of that of his father, the late humorist Robert Benchley, who himself aspired to write serious stuff, but never got around...
...always, the moves were slick and carefully timed so that Moscow was looking in another direction when Dej acted. A lover of fast cars who drove a supercharged Mercedes, Dej saved his caution for politics. But when he was ready to make his big move, the gear change was smooth and swift...
...LeRoy (Little Women, Little Caesar) takes on a case of adultery in France and loses it. While Heroine Jean Seberg languishes around Cannes in St. Laurent originals, her Psychiatrist Husband Arthur Hill leaves her and goes traipsing through Europe on behalf of mental health. Of course, Jean meets a smooth young Navy ensign (Sean Garrison) who seems uncertain whether he is supposed to be wearing his uniform or modeling...