Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weaknesses of the Government's approach is the tendency of the agencies involved to squabble over prerogatives and credit. Communication is sometimes only intermittent. The task will be to develop smooth relationships between, say, the rough-and-ready DEA (one in 50 agents was shot at in 1981), which specializes in street stakeouts and gritty undercover work, and the green-eyeshade technocrats at the IRS, who delve into the esoteric evidence of drug peddlers' financial crimes. "Any prosecutor," says U.S. Attorney Walsh, "can tell you horror stories about information they didn't have because it was in the hands...
...this second level the director must offer not necessarily a single interpretation, but at least a consistent perspective from which the audience can approach the play. The current production of Cocktail Party at South House offers a smooth and entertaining show, but director Rebecca Gould seems uncertain what aspects of the convoluted script to highlight. While justifiably unwilling to answer the questions the play poses, she swings too far in the other direction, failing to choose even one or two of those issues as a focus...
...more ambitious, involving more people both in his pictures and as assistants in the studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas-relief in aluminum depicting a horde of struggling Wall Street types: a Roman battle sarcophagus with updated clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry the theatrical idea. Longo is not much of a modeler; his striking talent for rendering does not extend into three dimensions, so that...
...Riordan, 45, the acting administrator for research and development, was named to the post permanently. The White House tapped Lee Thomas, 38, to replace the ousted Rita Lavelle as head of the agency's hazardous-waste program. The Administration also created a new congressional-liaison job designed to smooth ruffled relations between Capitol Hill and the agency, and nominated Lee Verstandig, 45, an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, to fill it. The new appointees are widely regarded as seasoned Government professionals who will help restore an air of competence to the agency...
...India and past president of the American Economic Association is now riding on the image and ideas which he generated during that time period. His current essays in economic and political persuasion, at least those in his most recent work, The Voice of the Poor, are as always smooth reading, but they are time-worn and unpersuasive...