Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road to Tabrizi was hardly as smooth as Tahmili's dexterity with the cookie dough would suggest...
...despite the surge in e-mail usage among University affiliates, ensuring the smooth delivery of mail to the world's pre-eminent academic institution is big business...
Love triangles are a dime a dozen in novels, but hate triangles are altogether rarer. In John Burnham Schwartz's swift, smooth second novel, Reservation Road (Knopf; 292 pages; $24), the three-sided relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors...
...film Grace of My Heart. If only the rest of this album were up to that stunningly well-crafted peak. Bacharach brings out a new directness in Costello's singing and verse, but the millstone is cloying production. These engagingly sinuous tunes deserve better than cheesy keyboards and smooth-jazz guitar licks more suited to a Lionel Richie album...
BONN: Germany's swing to the left has put smooth-talking centrist Gerhard Schroeder in power, but it may also make life difficult for the new chancellor. Schroeder was finalizing plans Monday for a coalition with the Greens, whose 47 seats would give him a 21-seat majority. "Here's a guy who got elected as representing 'the new center,' but both his Green coalition partners and the left wing of his own Social Democratic Party aren't enthusiastic about his economic plans," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "It's not surprising that he's being cagey about policy specifics...