Word: smoothed
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Israel, meanwhile, refused to make the slightest concession to help smooth the way toward an international peace conference sought by Hussein and other Arab leaders. At least one comment in Hussein's speech last week was aimed directly at Israeli hawks. "Jordan is not Palestine," the King noted. Many Israeli rightists, hardened by the turmoil of the intifadeh, have come to support the view promoted by former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon that Jordan should be the Palestinian homeland and that the West Bank should be annexed by Israel. If large numbers of Palestinians from the West Bank were forced into...
WOMACK & WOMACK: CONSCIENCE (Island). Soul that's sweet and stern simultaneously. Funky as it is, the music still goes down smooth -- and lingers...
...stream has not always been smooth. Born in Mississippi, Oprah (her name is an accidental misspelling of the Biblical character Orpah) shuttled for much of her childhood between her grandmother in Mississippi, her mother in Milwaukee and her father in Nashville. The time with her mother was the most traumatic: she suffered several instances of sexual abuse, the first at age nine by a 19-year-old cousin. Oprah revealed the incident in a now legendary segment of her talk show; today she says the abuse was "not a horrible thing in my life. There was a lesson...
When he sings, it surely seems to. For his years, he has done a fair amount of living, not all of it above the law, and he has a voice that can really sidle around a lyric, sound smooth flowing and knowing at the same time. Forever and Ever, Amen, which topped the country charts for three weeks, is a straight-ahead tune, an up-tempo litany of undying devotion -- all right, it's almost corny -- but Travis pulls it from the brink of bathos with some hair- trigger phrasing and a very sly, very worldly tone of voice. This...
...billion in | February, only to plunge to $9.7 billion in March. Part of the reason for such swings is that trade flows vary according to seasonal patterns. When the Commerce Department announces the April figure next week, the number will be "seasonally adjusted" in an attempt to smooth out temporary fluctuations...