Word: smooth
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...flying creatures and flight. He collected butterflies and moths, began assembling model airplanes from kits and soon was designing his own autogyros, helicopters and ornithopters. At 15, he was already winning national model-airplane contests. "At the time I wished that I could be a football hero and a smooth character," he says. "But I now realize that if I had been, I'd be just an overage football jock instead of still plying my trade as a scientist and an engineer...
Belying Thacher's image as a country club for rich white kids, the student body is diverse (27% are minority, mostly Asian), and ethnic relations are remarkably smooth. "Everything's so homogenized here," admits alumnus Derrick Perry, 24. "It's like I didn't realize I was black until I went to Dartmouth." Sexism is probably the most divisive issue. Women, including faculty members, complain that the school remains encumbered with "old boy" history. Yet if Thacher continues to thrive, it is probably because of its throwback traditions. "If there is any single quality we look for," says admissions director...
According to Overseer Peter H. Wood '64, the normally secretive and smooth process of choosing the Commencement speaker was somewhat rockier this year. Not all the Board members, Wood says, supported the choice of Kohl, whom Wood called a "right-wing European...
...current single, Alright, and an album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, that has already sold five million copies. Her current tour, her first sustained appearance as a solo act, leaves no doubt that she's not a studio-made creature. Her show combines sleek high tech and smooth dance rhythm into an evening of snazzy soul with a social conscience...
When Kuchchi Devi, 24, and her husband Dhanraj, 26, used to walk together to the well for a bath, the villagers of Saton Dharampur would sigh at the grace of this "pair of swans," as they were called. He was tall and handsome. She was lovely, with smooth skin and sloping eyes. The local landlord, Arjun Singh, noticed Kuchchi's beauty too. One day last month he approached her as she cut wheat in his fields and offered her two bullocks and other favors if she would sleep with him. Dhanraj angrily told Singh to leave his wife alone. That...