Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spikers next game is Tuesday at home against MIT. With a week to practice, Farber hopes to smooth the rough edges and up the confidence level of the players...
...syndicated columnist, public relations executive and Jacqueline Kennedy's onetime White House social secretary, Baldrige, 58, has a solution for almost every imaginable corporate conundrum. Trying to make a smooth sales pitch in Peking? Do not wear white, the Chinese symbol of mourning. Stuck at a monotonous meeting? Do not doodle, and refrain from "conference table tics, such as bending paper clips into endless combinations or rolling bits of paper into tiny balls," Baldrige advises. Preparing a menu for the office Christmas party? Keep it simple and "save the snakemeat canapes and the blanquette of hare for your personal parties...
President Derek C. Bok told the University's guests yesterday that the whole complex represents a smooth transition between bustling Harvard Square and the Brattle St. neighborhood...
...search seems to be not for the beautiful but for the esoteric. In his overtly Freudian sketch "Horses," Pete presents one of the many dreamlike situations offered by the book: "Confronting the white horse I put out my hand and brushed hard down the flank as if to smooth away the mark of a girth strap. As I did so, the skin fell away, and the dry white bones of the rib cage appeared. Beneath the ribs, living within the body of the horse, moved a massive snake. Its skin shone green and blue. It was bloated and overfed; full...
...does he choose to rhapsodize over the animals in his prose debut? The last chapter, "Lagune. Valentine's Day, 1982," is an imagistic digression extremely reminiscent of "Equus," only more graphic. Pete writes, "The horse is beautiful. Its mane is flowing and clean, its coat brushed and smooth. Its eyelashes are long and curved. The horse is now before me, it bares its teeth and its tongue flicks out. I hold the great, gorgeous head in my hands. Then I walk behind the beautiful creature and, brushing aside the tail...