Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are meaningful warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must by very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy...
...muster to smooth over the sharp and often irritating personal differences of his two visitors. Sadat is an emotional and visionary leader who at times sounds so mystical that Israelis snidely refer to him as sitting upon "his pharaonic throne." Preferring to deal in broad strokes and principles, Sadat quickly tires of the legalistic details that are often essential to translate a belief into a program. The Israeli Premier is no less visionary, but he is also a product of the Talmudic tradition. He almost seems to revel in analytical disputations about minutiae...
Then there are the familiar, likable actors: the recently-revived Dyan Cannon (better than ever these days) as Clouseau's tag-along; the smooth, stylishly resonant Robert Webber (also not around in the last few years and also better than ever) as the heavy; and Herbert Lom, in the best of his Inspector Dreyfuss portrayals. There was too much of Lom in Strikes Again, and Edwards directed him badly, but here he's wired to short-circuit on sight of Clouseau, toppling over in hilarious catatonia...
Peter Predun may be the most underrated lacrosse player in the country. As a sophomore last year, the midfielder placed only as high as the third team when All-American honors came out. This spring, there's no way they can keep the smooth wheeler-dealer off the first team...
...this meeting you, will be offically welcomed to Harvard-Radcliffe by President Bok and Radcliffe President Horner. Derek Bok is an interesting guy. He's paid to look good and talk smooth. And you might see him two or three times more, with luck, before you graduate. Dean Henry Rosovsky will give an address, which promises be a million laughs. If it rains, forget it, because the welcoming will be held in Sanders Theater, which can't hold all of you. Which means that they stick the latecomers into the Science Center, where you watch the whole thing...