Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides, "the course of true love never did run smooth," as Lysander observes, and in seeing the muddle of our own times we are apt to overlook the fact that it was ever so. Faithlessness was hardly patented by Cressida, and even in Shakespeare's day, the theaters were full of Roman numerals. Sequels follow sequels. Romeo, let us not forget, was a heartstrong adolescent unable to imagine any girl save Rosaline -- until he set eyes on Juliet; and Juliet was a 13-year-old upstart who roundly abused both her murdering Romeo and her devoted nurse. Shakespeare himself addresses...
...drums of the Eagles, a colossally successful Los Angeles band with a lot of hits behind it and a future of guaranteed disintegration. There was a fair portion of intramural rivalry among band members. There was also a sense, even among the group's fans, that the Eagles' sound -- smooth melodies and often aseptic lyrics that took listeners on a twilight tour of the Hotel California -- might be about played...
...world that I think fiction is not quite catching it," says the author whose own novels are exceptions. Naipaul is a constant reader, although he admits to rarely finishing a book. He dislikes the prose of Gibbon and the King James Bible because he finds it too smooth. He prefers the rich accents of the Elizabethans. "My writing is full of helpless echoes of Shakespeare," he confesses. He listens to the tapes of the sonnets at dinner and reads the dramas at night. Among his favorites are the Henry plays, with their themes of chaos and shifting fortunes...
...connoisseurs, the manual mower's greatest advantage is its quality performance, claims Jim Hewitt, American Lawn Mower's vice president for marketing and sales. "A power mower can fragment the end of the grass like the split end of a hair," he explains. "A manual shears the lawn real smooth, like a crew...
However he feels around cod, Gift has a smooth, soulful way around a tune. His voice sounded a little uncertain on a remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds, from the first Cannibals album, Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1985. The sensual assurance Gift acquired on The Raw & the Cooked may come from some special attention he has been lavishing on his vocal cords. "I do go to see someone now and again for guidance about my voice," he reports. "But it's for moral guidance, because I think there's more to singing than just songs." A Cannibals tune like...