Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cool, blunt observer; she's the one you used to turn to when closer friends became close and you needed some perspective on the emotional carnage. She, more than anyone else in the show, makes her stereotype a person. With an extraordinarily strong voice and a very smooth, sarcastic style, Woods escapes the limits of the revue form and forces us to share the events of her days from her unhappy first brush with sex (described in the song "Getting Home") to her careful analysis of her friends (the other four women in the show) which she reads...
THEY SAID IT couldn't happen. Even after the old man died Christmas time, 1976, the Chicago Democratic Organization--the only remaining big-city political machine in the nation--pulled itself together under the sure hand and compromising nature of Michael A. Bilandic, a smooth party pro from Daley's own back-of-the-Yards ward. All the nascent fiefdoms popping up across town fell before the power of the new mayor and the still viable party machinery...
Hancock delivers a petrifyingly smooth and solid disc with the pace of a pendulum and an impressive array of moods. "Trust Me," a soft and easily flowing track incorporated his genius on the keyboards and his synthesized voice. To illuminate the backup vocals, a factor many other artists ignore. Hancock relies upon the Four Waters. The Four Waters isn't the name of a quartet, but rather a way to describe the vocal ebb and flow of brothers Oren and Luther Waters and their wives Julia and Maxine. The stunning vitality of their voices sounds electrifying behind that of Hancock...
Yale trailed by 11 points, 41-27, with 2:08 left in the stanza when Harvard began to slow up its offense. At this juncture, the smooth-running Crimson machine faltered, as it did Friday night under similar circumstances in the closing minutes of the Brown first half...
Freshman Caroline Powell crushed Feldman, 5-2, in her last bout to give her a 1-3 record on the day. At times, Powell fenced with the agility, quickness nad smooth technique which is her trademark; but she could not maintain her poise for entire bouts...