Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political document, designed to pass the election-year buck to the Democrats, Nixon's "nonpartisan" speech was a smooth and highly effective performance. He produced some graceful lines, including his defense of the nation's essential goodness. Said he: "Let us reject the narrow visions of those who tell us that we are evil because we are not yet perfect; that we are corrupt because we are not yet pure; that all the sweat and toil and sacrifice that have gone into the building of America were for naught because the building is not yet done...
...album's cuts are so original in approach as to make classification impossible, there are two which resemble typical AM rock. "Look at the Day' is the type of music that a 14-year-old girl would like," Lyons said. "It's very optimistic." The bouncy bass and smooth melody contrast with the sombre, driving beat which is common to many of their other songs. It is very light music. The sentimental, though slightly saccharine "Our Album" is reminiscent of McCartney. Just the same, both "Look at the Day" and "Our Album" add a dimension to the record, and neither...
...years. As for the 116,000 patients, they will be temporarily maintained in small psychiatric units in local general hospitals, then rehabilitated through outpatient care, either at home or in clinics. Teams of doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers will be set up in each town to smooth the integration of former mental patients into community life. Only a few who are considered dangerous will remain confined...
...largely behind him. A full-time campaign staff of 30-augmented by hundreds of volunteers-is already at work cranking out newsletters and magazines, planning fund-raising dinners and plotting strategy. Wallace will concentrate on regional television broadcasts instead of the helter-skelter personal campaigning of '68. To smooth his image, he has sought and received advice on television technique from Evangelist Billy Graham...
...gangster, and now lives in London.) His book is a remarkably good novel of memory, and it is memory that splits the images and works the magnifications, producing the prose pratfalls, the crosscutting of parody and boozy interior monologue, the bits of trivia in two languages worn smooth like lucky stones...