Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal of major proportions marred the otherwise smooth awards ceremony. An enterprising newspaper reporter noted that Frank Kulash, chief election commissioner and curator of the Radcliffe pinball Hall of Fame, was guilty of conflict-of-interest in certifying himself as the fifth place finisher in the election...
Dean, handsome and a smooth operator, had risen to his high-level post with virtually no experience as a practicing attorney, but with frequent demonstrations of loyalty to Nixon. But when his name became deeply involved with Watergate, he started scurrying for self-protection. He went to Justice Department prosecutors and told about the meetings he had attended at which the Watergate wiretapping plans were discussed. He revealed that former Attorney General John Mitchell had attended the meetings. Dean has asked for immunity against prosecution from the Justice Department in return for telling all he knows...
Blattner said that the robbers were "smooth" and seemed so dissatisfied with the $14 they took from him and Siefert that he was momentarily afraid they would kill...
...images which delight the eye become reference points of characterization. Characters reveal themselves gradually but with force, while the relationships between characters--deliberately, almost obnoxiously unclear at the very beginning -- only gradually appear in their full intensity. The film is 110 minutes of life unfolding in an ever-so-smooth progression from the distancing narrative of the opening scenes (in many of which the main characters do not even appear) to the intensified, more-than-immediate state at the end. By then we feel not only the emotional stresses and joys of young Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) but also the depth...
...living flat-picking guitar player. His performances are invariably distinguished not just be occasional bursts of dazzling speed or by audience-winning tricks, but by an unerring sense of timing and mood which might enable him to make a country rendition of the Boston Yellow Pages sound interesting. His smooth, if not polished singing style offers relief from country singers who sound something like the cows they are singing about, and his interpretations of contemporary folk music are as successful and perhaps even more pleasing than his classic renditions of traditional country romances, evangelical songs, and blues...