Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story, Ajemian shadowed three Connallys nonstop for a week: he rode with the leather-lunged campaigner on a four-states-in-four-days fund-raising sweep; he weekended with the ten-gallon-hatted, boots-and-khaki cattle rancher at his Floresville, Texas, spread; and he interviewed the smooth-talking, pinstriped attorney in his expensively furnished Houston law office. It was only in this third and most worldly incarnation that Ajemian saw Big John ease up on his relentless self-control and look touchingly human. "I had asked him about country-and-western music, and he started talking about...
...songs for Lindsay Anderson's mock epic of modern England, O Lucky Man (1973), stand as one of the decade's most original film scores. But the spike in his lyrics can be easy to miss: it is hidden neatly between a rich melody and a smooth delivery that owes as much to cabaret as to the Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. Lately, too, his songs have grown rather more introspective and relaxed, concentrating on private dilemmas and domestic relations. A just released album called Lucky Day opens with a modified disco tune that flirts with...
...very appealing as a man inescapably infected by the crudity of his team's raucous (and vividly rendered) behavior at work and play; he struggles to give Elliott an intelligence beyond the character's ability to articulate. The star is well supported by Mac Davis, as a smooth ole star quarterback who's learned to get ahead by going along, and by G.D. Spradlin as the head coach, Charles Durning as the assistant coach-enforcer, Steve Forrest as the owner and Bo Svenson as an animalistic lineman...
Once rather unpolished compared with commercial radio, All Things Considered is now as smooth as a game show, with catchy electronic music between segments and inventive sound effects. But what really holds the show together is the cohosts: Stamberg, 40, former manager of Washington's public station WAMU, who signed on as a tape editor at the program's inception in 1971; and Bob Edwards, 32, who arrived in 1974 after working as a writer and newsreader at WTOP, Washington's all-news commercial station. Stamberg is the key to the program's ingratiating charm...
...field manual that explains, among other things, how to turn left while marching. In addition, Target 26 trudges far too long through the minutiae of long-distance running. The authors remind readers unnecessarily that runners' "arms should move in a pendulum fashion, bending at the elbows with a smooth rhythm that matches the cadence of the stride," or, after an overlong section on diet, conclude that foods that tend to make runners sick should be avoided before races. The two walking books, both titled The Complete Book of Walking (Simon & Schuster; $10, and Farnsworth; $9.95), have been padded...