Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marble has the soft, veiled surface of wax. The play between smooth volume and wiry, chiseled line that gave such life to Nadelman's Greek models is not there...
...work like Tango (circa 1919), the dress suit and the white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
...tousled loner of Laughlin's 1971 cult hit of the same name? Can this be the hero of The Trial of Billy Jack (1974), who mused on the tragedies of My Lai and Kent State? It can. To Laughlin, the private fury and the public saint are a smooth amalgam of aesthetics and justice. "The youth of this country have only two heroes," he claims modestly, "Ralph Nader and Billy Jack." Laughlin says to friends, "Billy Jack will institute political change...
...Pearly Smooth. The problem with occupying the middle so snugly is that a candidate becomes, well, middling. Bentsen does little to attract or repel. Mainly, he tries to soothe with an approach that is pearly smooth and a bit soporific. "He dreams dreams but doesn't chase rainbows," was an early campaign slogan. The result is a rather colorless campaign, though one that exudes competence. Bentsen seems all but devoid of regional or personal quirks. His urbane performance gives no clues that he is a Texan. Understated and restrained, he manages to conceal much of the inner man from...
...piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. There is no clear compliment the movie can be paid without an immediate qualification: it is smooth but forgettable, bearable but brainless. The film has nothing novel to say and nothing to offer except Robert Redford. But the way things work in Hollywood these days, Redford is enough...