Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bowen, has done a brilliant reconstruction from archival material widely scattered in England, France and the U.S. Although his research was thorough enough to produce a 700-odd item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin...
DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md., doesn't have your average high school basketball program. It has, quite simply a sharp shooting, smooth-handling, defense-swarming, slam-dunking dynasty...
...skin-care preparations this year. "Ten years ago, it was sissy to use a blow dryer. Now policemen and truck drivers use them." The new adventurers in the skin trade see it as an obvious outgrowth of, or perhaps they would prefer to say a smooth supplement to, the health-and-fitness craze...
...Souther: Home by Dawn (Warner Bros.). Smooth ballads and caustic rockers about misfired romance and misguided adventure by one of the most adept exponents of what has come to be known, somewhat derisively, as "the L.A. sound." Back in the mid-'70s, Los Angeles was the capital of cool, and Souther and the Eagles were the cornerstones of close harmony and acrid social observation. Punk and new wave blew this kind of music out of the water, or at least seemed to. But the substance of new wave could not always keep pace with the style, which...
Although the flowers were flown to New York, the ride to the airport was so smooth that they were driven the 200 miles back to Cambridge by hearse again...