Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese, virtually tribal in their consensual citizenship, have a fairly smooth decision-making process. The Prime Minister, a product of the Diet (Parliament), reports weekly to the legislature in what Columbia Law School's Michael Young calls an "environment of interaction, conciliation and accountability." In addition, Japanese politicians "engage in continual and intense negotiation with the private sector." In America, the President and Congress constantly collide, as do the Government and business...
...have such extreme affection for each other that each is willing to offer up his life for the other without a second thought. Director Erik Salovaara makes this relationship less disquieting by changing Antonio into a woman, Antonia. Joanna Skoler's controlled performance and a few gender-altered pronouns smooth the transformation...
...play consists of a series of overlapping vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter talk, and a pitch to granddad for prep school tuition money made by a politic young man, to name...
Throughout the second half, both teams demonstrated fluid passing and smooth transitioning up the field--yet after the first goal, neither was able to capitalize on the numerous penalty corners and increased shots on goal. Crimson goalie Denise Katsias recorded nine saves to notch the shut...
Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...