Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train picked up speed, passengers nervously groped for the arms of their reclining seats. But thanks to the super-smooth track, there was almost no sensation of acceleration. Outside the large, tinted windows, wild flowers became smears of yellow, the pastoral scene a pastiche of blurry cows, fences and houses...
...Cross as Abrahams, for instance, and the gentle strength of Ian Charleson as Liddell. A word of praise, too, goes to a supporting cast that includes Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a pair of congealed Cambridge dons, Nigel Davenport and Patrick Magee as Olympic committeemen respectively too smooth and too Blimpish. Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem...
Ford will generally not employ the 4-4-2 alignment, prevalent much of last year. With the increased offensive firepower there is no need to hang back at midfield, sending just two forwards up front. With that alignment last year, the Crimson lacked a smooth transition from defense to the attack...
After 45 years in thriller country, Eric Ambler is still the master of murk. Ironic, cerebral, smooth as vintage port, he has created an all-too-familiar world of doublecross and blackmail where the heroes are unheroic and the villains almost likable. The Care of Time is quintessential Ambler from the very first sentence: "The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week...
...TIME correspondents visited control towers, interviewed substitute controllers and quizzed air-safety experts, they found little cause for public fear. Indeed, there was evidence that the FAA's plan to reduce and smooth out the flow of air traffic was making flying in some ways even safer. The working controllers were going about their jobs with an esprit de corps that had been sadly lacking when the more militant unionists, spoiling for a strike, were among them. Declared Frank Arcidiacono, a former controller now a supervisor at the Los Angeles radar center, as he noted the pickets outside...