Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows that we know"... "Well, I hope she works hard, because when she's good, she's very good." Finally Parker climbed into the launch, the motorboat from which he scrutinizes his rowers, and chugged off to where the two fours were already gliding along. The rowing was smooth, steady, rhythmic, as the oars skimmed through the water and flipped up, over, back, skim, up, over, back. Broods of ducks, a few sculls, the Boston skyline, the beginnings of rush hour traffic, and a Coca Cola sign that flashed "7:32, 74 degrees," all passed by; the emerging sun sent...
...soon the frisbee was retrieved and the eight was on the water--eight pairs of knees bending up, eight oars gliding through the water, eight bodies pulling back, the whole thing working like a smooth, strong precision machine. The boat sped up the Charles, leaving behind Jackie Zoch who had been told to go out on a pair this afternoon...
...shop; he eventually learned of his obsession and finally located the model, Diane Webber, now a Malibu, Calif., housewife and belly-dance instructor. (The two have never met.) He interviewed the pair and their families more than a dozen times, and recounts the sexual histories of all in the smooth, detailed prose at which Talese excels. "I got people to talk because I care and I'm interested," he says. "I wanted to see how people get through their days and nights...
After several meetings, Elizalde and Nance flew into the secret valley of the Tasaday. High on a cliff, in a cave about 50 ft. wide and 30 ft. deep, small groups sat talking by several fires. Children climbed a smooth rock and laughed as they slid down. One boy flew a pet butterfly on a string, like a kite. The floor of the cavern was regularly swept with branches, but no improvements had been made...
...willingness to talk, and some deeply divisive issues must be overcome before any stabilization agreements can be reached. For one thing, the U.S., which produces 85% of its own raw materials, still believes that the free market balances supply and demand well enough so that stabilization pacts should only smooth out the wilder swings; but many developing countries favor scrapping the market mechanism altogether in favor of arbitrary price and production targets...