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Word: smoothly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Master of Ceremonies Archibald Absalom Wellington, smooth as a dagger and just as menacing, introduces his sullen, smoke-eyed cast. Deodatus Village is a half-dressed epitome of black buckdom. The strumpet he struts for is whore-cum-ballet-dancer Stephanie Virtue Secret-rose Diop--"Virtue" for short, which neatly sums up the situation. The curate Diouf pleads for passive religious acceptance; Felicity Trollop Pardon shrieks "Dahomey!" and "Africa!" with an epileptic frenzy; Augusta Snow says little and wears anger like a nimbus round her pout-mouthed head. Genet further burlesque's white perceptions of black names by dubbing...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: A Gray Genet | 4/14/1976 | See Source »

...have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true." Louise Fletcher, who had just won an Oscar for Best Actress of the Year, was passing along the good news in sign language to her deaf parents watching television in Birmingham, conscribing the words, etching the phrases, with smooth movements of arms and hands, as tears edged down her cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cloudcuckooland for the Oscars | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...Angeles (circ. 100,000), now owned by a medical-book publisher, was once eagerly sought by New York's Felker. Los Angeles has developed over the past 15 years into a smooth, narrow-focus magazine that is deliberately preoccupied with helping its readers to "get the good life together" and, like many of its affluent readers, only mildly concerned with Los Angeles politics and problems. "City government is just not a spectator sport here as it is in other cities," explains Editor Geoff Miller, 39, who joined Los Angeles shortly after graduating from U.C.L.A. The sport in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Urban Survival Manuals | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

Gone are the Shealys and the Cashins, "the rude and the smooth," the arrogant and flamboyant oarsmen who propelled Harvard loudly and convincingly to the top of U.S. collegiate rowing for two straight years...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard Crew: Learning to Deal with Uncertainty | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

...Cashin, smooth and experienced, seemed to blast each stroke effortlessly, all the while spinning the six-pound weight behind the ergometer furiously with each eruption of his legs and back. Brock, somewhat rougher in style but determined to beat Cashin, grimaced and hurled his weight in kind...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard Crew: Learning to Deal with Uncertainty | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

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