Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event, a smooth confirmation process is in the country's best interests at this point...
...tell" shouldn't work because it is morally reprehensible, a first-ever official codification of a policy that encourages concealing a fact deemed material to an institution's smooth functioning(assuming, again, the survival of language condemning homosexuality -- or its practice). The law prohibits discrimination in part by respecting one's privacy, but in each case the rationale assumes that the "secret" (one's religion or political beliefs, for example) is immaterial to job performance...
...brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes in an ambiguous, secular...
BOOKS The Night Manager, John le Carre's new dazzler, has the smooth whoosh of a Bentley. THEATER Terrence McNally's play is a miracle worker. TELEVISION A weekend in the life of one troubled family makes a fine mini-series. CINEMA In the Line of Fire casts Eastwood as Clintosaurus rex. MUSIC In mid-megatour, U2 releases a reflective album...
Shades of black and white rule the screen and extravagant costumes line the halls. An especially well-done scene depicts the nobility dancing on a frozen lake with ice skates. The smooth movements of the cast live up to the costumes that are almost too elegant to be chronologically correct...