Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carnes nomination this week promises to be the most contentious vote on a lower-court candidate in years. Despite the tough-sell symbolism of replacing Johnson, a civil rights legend, with a nominee best known for hustling inmates to the electric chair, Carnes appeared to be on a smooth course to confirmation before the question of racism in the justice system was illuminated by the fires of Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. Meanwhile, the Democratic dream of recapturing the White House moved from fond hope to real prospect. After 12 years in which the Reagan and Bush Administrations...
...begin his climb from the electoral cellar, George Bush needed a fortnight of seamless good fortune: a small triumph of diplomacy with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, James Baker's return to political service, then a smooth glide to Houston for joyous coronation by a united Republican Party. Maybe the convention week will go that way. But in the first half of the Republican fortnight, the President seemed unable to awake from what is turning out to be a nightmarish fight for re-election...
...BOTTOM LINE: Smooth and sexy, uncaring and unknowable, Dean Martin was the showman America deserved...
...best farces are animated by disinterest, not contempt. This one is undone by the twin Hollywood trends of misogyny and morphing. The picture's political and technical slickness betrays its intentions and gives it the smooth, opulently dressed, unwontedly cheery look of a Beverly Hills corpse...
...fall in love, or at least into some kind of infatuation, with Barcelona. But not everyone finds the course of the affair smooth, for as the Spanish historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto recently wrote in his short history ; of the city, "like one of those tryingly beautiful and energetic women whom all men are able to identify among their acquaintances, she can excite passion only for short periods." It can be a confusing place for those who expect the stereotype of tourist Spain -- flamenco, bullfights, serenades under the moonlit balcony. It is a gritty city, crowded, with brusque street manners...