Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conventionally, a favorable report from Judiciary guarantees a bill smooth sailing once it reaches the floor. Marijuana is no conventional issue however. "There are certain bills that are so volatile that a favorable report would not insure passage," Hatch says, noting that "this bill is not a bottle bill...
Despite her great theatrical and emotional control, it was difficult for Lieberman to make a smooth transition to Richard Johnson's carefree folk tune "I Ain't Got the Blues No More." Johnson, a folksinger and slide guitarist who is well-traveled in the local club scene, made his first public appearance in nearly a year, made and produced many pleasant echo-cascading electric guitar sounds. Jeannie ended the concert alone, playing a pretty dulcimer piece and the intimate "Listen With Your Own Mind...
...their love affair is a conventional one-first meeting and wary attraction, a fairly smooth sail into bed (art movies and paperbacks are the food of love), a mutual discovery of annoying foibles, which predicts the big breakup. It comes finally over her developing career and her cheerful acceptance of the lunatic notion that Los Angeles offers a viable setting for a civilized life...
...physical bargain that The Great Republic is: its illustrations, though superb, are only black and white. But its accounts have a high color. The mission of Franklin, Deane and Lee to secure France's aid during the Revolution, for example, becomes "a spectacle to delight the gods-smooth Ben, sleek Silas and suspicious Arthur selling a revolution to the most absolute monarch in Europe." Morison was correcting the manuscript of this revision just before he died last year at the age of 88. What a way to go. Mayo Mohs
...money-encrusted trappings, heavy-handed traditions, and self-conscious style when he was here. He seems unable to break away from his seemingly idyllic undergraduate days. Hence the creation of the Barretts, with their wealth and generations of Harvardiana. Oliver is the consummate Harvard hero--hip, smooth, and above all rich, an amalgamation of everything Segal apparantly admires. To foist Oliver on an unsuspecting world once is bad enough; to do it twice is almost criminal. If Oliver's Story continues to sell as well as its predecessor, Segal is at least assured of being rich, and perhaps he will...