Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distant objects are really galaxies, their number and distribution across the sky should help solve fundamental astronomical mysteries. How, for example, did the big bang, by all estimates a very smooth, if violent, explosion, evolve into the universe of galaxies and clusters of galaxies that exists today? Were stars created before galaxies or vice versa? And perhaps most intriguing, are these galaxies poised at the edge of the observable universe? Astronomers believe most galaxies formed at the same time, shortly after the big bang. If these galaxies come from that epoch, their light began its journey to earth 17 billion...
...England. Shopping, from their current album Actually, sounds like a recessional hymn for a fashion show until Tennant's lyrics catch hold: "Our gain is your loss/ That's the price you pay/ I heard it in the House of Commons/ Everything's for sale." Britpop may be so smooth and cool that it has brought a new ice age to the charts. But Tennant and his partner Chris Lowe are the Houdinis of this whole show...
...Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez insisted that the withdrawal was necessary to comply with a promise to reduce the U.S. military presence in Spain in return for passage of a 1986 referendum endorsing the country's continued membership in NATO. Agreement on the F-16 issue should also smooth the way for a new treaty that will allow continued U.S. access to other bases on Spanish soil...
DIRECTOR Michael Ritchie '60, in a recent interview in Boston, said when he read the part of Burns he "thought immediately of Dan Aykroyd--the smooth-talking conniver who can BS his way out of anything." Those of us who tend to think of Aykroyd more in terms of an unfunny fat man may have trouble discerning Ritchie's meaning. At any rate, the portrayal of a mental patient as a shyster who fakes mental illness to avoid responsibility is highly offensive to anyone who has had contact with the disease...
...Hours seeks to break new ground, CBS This Morning is merely trying to recapture lost territory. After the embarrassing Morning Program, the new show has been a welcome addition just by looking normal. Though it is still fishing for its personality, Co-Anchors Kathleen Sullivan and Harry Smith are smooth and genuine (he more than she). The news content is relatively high, the tone comfortably mellow and the audience slightly larger. The chief problem: luring star-caliber guests away from the more popular Today and Good Morning America...