Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Bridgeland spent an hour this Thursday working on his groundstokes and volleys. It was a practice session like countless others: smooth, classical forehands and backhands, lofting topspin lobs, staccato volley winners. Confidently he guided ball after ball toward the opposite baseline, until the varsity arrived for its afternoon workout...
...Meyreles's hair is growing back, and he may replace the outfit he's worn in the streets for the past two years. "Just the other day I said to myself, this is going to end, too--this uniform. I think I'll go through a new stage," the smooth musician says, off the streets and in a coffee house. At a time when the legion of street musicians splits somewhat frantically for the subways, coveted club gigs and regular jobs, Meyreles confidently plans a departure from the street musician life, where he has made his living for three years...
...dangerous projects (Pretty Baby, Murmur of the Heart), was obviously attracted to the challenge of doing what amounts to an antimovie, static and minimalist. He has functioned, it seems, pretty much in the manner of a good TV technician handling a Sunday-morning inter view show. His work is smooth, objective, unobtrusive. His manner certainly suits a script that was distilled from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between its author-protagonists...
...transition. You have seen a smooth transition. President Sadat gave our institutions a strong base...
...smooth devaluation was possible only with the cooperation of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was Mitterrand's guest last week. Accompanied by the President's black labrador, Nil, the two leaders looked like a pair of country squires as they ambled along the wooded lanes near Mitterrand's country home in Latche, south of Bordeaux. If they walked with a lighter step, it was perhaps because recently each had cause to help the other. Mitterrand was grateful to the Chancellor for supporting the devaluation, which imposes stiffer competition upon West German business. For his part, Schmidt...