Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They took hours to unload everything. At least one alumnus brought along a TV, apparently anticipating some dull moments in the action-packed schedule which lasts through post-Commencement hucksterism. But between carting the children to Walden Pond and the adults to prepaid boogies at the Metro, the smooth reunion organizers don't leave much room to reflect...
...Paper became an extended on the-job training period where he learned the business side of publishing inside out. But after the paper was sold to national interests in 1976, he says, the fun and challenge of his job disappeared. He stayed on for another year to assure a smooth transition of ownership--an early demonstration of the loyalty which has won him so much praise in his present job--before accepting Harvard's offer to oversee the expansion and fiscal rebuilding of Harvard Magazine...
...English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many of a Jedi knight's weapons, the mysterious but potent powers of the Force...
...other's dirty laundry. Most of the clips on Life's Most Embarrassing Moments were outtakes and slip-ups from TV shows such as Three's Company and Soap. Although the "embarrassing moments" were meant to be backstage revelations, somehow more "real" than the smooth, neatly edited programming they disrupted, they seemed instead to be unabashedly calculated...
...discrediting of the diaries enhanced the reputations of some historians and forgery experts who had quickly concluded that the diaries were fraudulent. New York Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton had taken one long look at photocopies of a few of the diary excerpts and pronounced them too consistent and too smooth to be credible. "Hitler's handwriting was full of power and force," he said. "It was tormented, impetuous, so that when he wanted to make a point, he would dig his pen into the paper and spread the ink, and when he gets to the end of a sentence...