Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Hurt is long and smooth-muscled and unlined; he looks like an experimental model for the next, higher form of life: Homo computerens. Sigourney Weaver is all beautiful angles and shining intelligence; she could be a Jane Fonda who studied phenomenology at the Sorbonne and washes her face every day with Ivory soap. His voice swoops into baritone breathiness as thoughts pop into his character's mind with the urgency of revelation. Hers is the voice of well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation...
MacShane raggedly splices quotes into otherwise smooth scenes. For instance, O'Hara, at a bar in Hollywood with a fellow writer, Robert Benchley, has just struck a woman and slapped Benchley's cigar out of his mouth. The next morning O'Hara calls Benchley...
...incumbent President should be fully capable of reversing his present slump. He remains a master of radio and television, as he demonstrated two weeks ago in a smooth defense of his foreign policy on national television. A Paris Match poll conducted after that performance reflected a momentary gain of several percentage points in Giscard's first-round electoral chances. The President, moreover, is no doubt counting on French voters to follow a time-honored pattern: a brief flirtation with the left in the first ballot, followed by a rush to the center-right when it really counts...
There she lies: a traditional reclining nude, very like Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, the body blandly composed, smooth, supernaturally white. But the feet are unclassically dirty from padding around a grimy atelier. The model's face, half turned toward the camera, wears an unsettling tigerish expression. In another picture, black-clad climbers struggle up the snowy folds of Mont Blanc looking like a necklace of chocolate chips dropped into a vanilla sundae. Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both...
...sign that this transition might not be a smooth one came when Caspar W. Weinberger '38, soon after getting the job, fired the defense transition team and had a run-in with its head, William R. Van cleave, Reagan's hawkish chief defense adviser, who during the campaign had hoped for a high Pentagon post. By January 20 disgruntled aides were calling the defense transition a joke, a mess and "at the very least, quite a bit behind." For a period of time, aides said, literally no one was running the place: Weinberger was working with Reagan on the budget...