Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defending themselves against the Servians. A Swiss mercenary who is employed by the Servians, Bluntschli, becomes for Raina her "chocolate cream soldier" by virtue of the moonlight encounter in which he reveals his fondness for food over bullets. Her fiance Sergius, Raina figures, is much braver than the smooth-talking Swiss, but only in the last five minutes of the play does the better...
...Orange County of economic privilege and social elitism that make possible the ascendancy of men like Richard Nixon to the Presidency. That life-style, that environment certainly merit cinematic investigation, but Shampoo hardly does the job. A message is hinted at, but its presentation is so smooth, it is done up in such a slick package, that the attempt to grasp it is about as satisfying as having coitus interrupts with someone covered with suntan lotion...
Aside from some publicity about the circumstances surrounding his admission. Cantelme's assimilation into the Harvard community has been a smooth one. There have been little problems--longer reading lists, greater difficulty making contacts with professors than at Glendale, adjusting to the reserved temperament of people in New England and to the weather--but few major ones. The biggest change academically in coming to Harvard was his decision to switch into economics when he entered after reading the registrar's assessment of his transcript showed that he could more easily fulfill the requirements of the Economics department than...
...ANGELES--Swami says super. With the best personnel in baseball today, the talented Dodgers will capture another divisional title, but this year, not even Charlie Finley's Oakland A's will stop this smooth machine...
...trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free shave. Prophesied Trainer Prezant: "This will be the biggest surprise in boxing." And Wepner's second wife Phyllis, a post office clerk, announced that she would like a Mercedes-Benz if her husband...