Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TOKYO--Leaders of the industrialized democracies ended a "smooth summit" yesterday, voicing satisfaction that they confronted terrorism while moving toward new trade talks and a revamped world monetary policy--two principal goals of the economic conference...
...stroke in the boat," oarswoman Anne O'Brien said. "It felt really smooth...
...anyone who remembers the phase of adolescence when you're trying so hard to be so grown up that you almost go too far, the early scenes of Smooth Talk are horribly real. With all her tacky adornments, Connie can only be asking for trouble...
...course, the movie does become infinitely more interesting when Arnold enters the scene. Before Arnold, Connie encounters all kinds of sleazes, but he's both her first, and her first psychotic. And as you watch Arnold smooth-talk the diffident Connie into submission, he seems like a sinister cross between Jack the Ripper and Huey Long...
...director's credit, scenes that are normally graphically portrayed are merely subtly suggestive, and in many ways more chilling for their uncertainty. One could say that Smooth Talk is the sort of movie that everyone would like if he just let himself get into it. But it's also the sort of movie we want to resist--we'd rather not believe in Connie's naivete or Arnold's sangfroid, and we don't wish to remember that growing up was as difficult for us as it is for Connie. We only stop resisting when the surreal elements, like Arnold...