Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Feeling. By his smooth acceleration into high gear last week Ford helped create a mood of good feeling and even exhilaration in Washington that the city had not experienced for many years, imparting the promise, at least, of a brilliant spring after a grim, dark winter. In part, the euphoria was a reaction to the dying agonies of the Nixon Administration, and there were whispered postmortems. "I tell you," confided one high official, "those last hours with the [former] President were the most painful that I have ever had to go through." But it was also created...
...four televised debates with Kennedy damaged Nixon more. Particularly in the first confrontation, Nixon appeared tired, edgy and stiff; his makeup was a disaster. Overall, the debates did much to project the image of Kennedy as a smooth, graceful aristocrat with the easy manners of wealth and good schooling. In contrast, Nixon suggested a sweaty sense of social inferiority. Nixon had much in his favor-eight years of national, highly visible experience; Kennedy was a Catholic, very young, a rich man's son. The election was a near thing. Kennedy won by only 113,000 votes...
Deliverance. At the same time, there was little emotional reaction to Nixon's abdication. The general feeling in European capitals was mainly one of surprise at the unexpectedly smooth resolution of America's long, arcane agony over Watergate (one BBC commentator noted that Nixon's farewell "was more of an inaugural address than anything else") and astonishment at the resilience of American institutions. Nixon's departure, said Vorwärts, the weekly journal of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, was "a deliverance." Headlined Turin's daily La Stampa: AMERICA HAS WON, NIXON RESIGNS...
Died. Robert Field Rounseville, 60, resonant tenor who kicked around for a decade as an underemployed nightclub crooner and vaudevillian before winning critical notice as a smooth, sensitive operatic lead in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 1948, sang the title roles in Tales of Hoffmann and the original production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and headlined as the padre in Man of La Mancha; of a heart attack; in his studio in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
Marvin Gardens, however, was a movie that asked audiences to reach out almost as far as Nicholson, and it flopped. Chinatown, a smooth, period private-eye yarn that works hard to hark back to the '30s and '40s, comes much more easily to hand. In it, Nicholson makes a shrewd choice to play persona rather than character-a commodity hi rather short supply in the script. His JJ. Gittes is cool, ironic, sympathetically small-time, a guy who stumbles on something a little bigger than he expected, or can manage. He also gets the chance to smile...