Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonderful tenderness and power as plastic surfaces. Even the plumpness of the bronze cast provides the suggestion of skin, while the slightly fuzzy texture of the metal further equivocates, not with the look, but with the feel of flesh. In some ways, the shapes of Marie-Thérèse, smooth and closed, are like the totemic bone forms of Picasso's grotesque anatomies of the '30s, the projects for immense figure-based sculptures that he fantasized building along the Côte d'Azur. But their whole import is different. There is no dislocation or fear in them: they...
...fact, Mondale has become a key adviser to Carter--a rather dubious honor in recent times. Widely regarded as unusually intelligent and a smooth operator on Capitol Hill, Mondale's main fault appears to be that his loyalty to Carter occasionally outdistances his better judgment. And in many respects, the cool, detached liberal from Minnesota is still somewhat of an enigma in the Carter administration...
...what the hurry is," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy told the council recently. "Let's take the time to plan--to smooth out, to hone, to refine," he added...
Company numbers come off the strongest. The cast of five dance and sing best when all together. Porter's "Too Darn Hot" is the most successful number in the show. The choreography is smooth, the performance fairly polished. The women's trio in "I Can Cook, Too" evoked loud laughter, as did the men's equally amusing rendition of the song in a modern parody of the 1944 Bernstein classic. After Hours could use more of this kind of innovation...
...that I want to kill this proposal--I just want time to hone it, to smooth it out, to refine it," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday. "A delay of 30 to 60 days is not going to substantially change the development prospects for this area," he added...