Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry Louis Wallace was smooth -- very, very smooth. Listeners tuning into WBAW-FM in Barnwell, South Carolina, during the late evening hours four years ago responded positively to Wallace, a.k.a. "Night Rider," a silky-voiced disk jockey who favored urban contemporary music. Women, taken with his sweet smile, solicitous attitude and pleasant looks, trusted him all along. They invited him to their homes for dinner, watched while he cradled their babies in his arms, accepted his invitations to date...
...those charges can be proved, they could harm the President far more than the ones he tried to turn aside in his news conference -- rated even by Republican foes as an impressively smooth performance -- or the accusations leveled by G.O.P. Congressman Jim Leach in a speech hours earlier on the House floor. The new charges involve not what obscure Arkansas wheeler-dealers did 15 years ago but what was said as recently as late February by George Stephanopoulos, the President's most trusted political adviser after his wife and the Vice President. And the story brings up the dread words...
...felt like a cow caught on the railroad tracks at night, staring straight into the headlight of an unstoppable train: her eyes are dark and intense, and she never looks away. "I come from a noble family," she says, and she looks like it: high cheekbones, face titled up, smooth white skin with the translucence of a da Vinci portrait...
Jules' definition might be the closest one to the truth, but it is still not easy to define Moreau's appeal. A lot of it has to do with her unique voice, husky, slightly raspy, but nevertheless smooth, like honey shot through with smoke. To hear that voice speaking French is something of a revelation. Even in claptrap like "La Femme Nikita," her distinctive voice elevated the pedestrian dialogue about a woman's beauty to the realm of poetry. Her voice cracks words open to reveal their intrinsic poetry and beauty, and when she sings, she is dangerously enchanging...
...second of the scenes also contains two smooth dance numbers with undulating gypsy maidens and simulated bullfights. Joel Derfner's acrobatic performance as the riotously poker-faced bullfighter Piquillo is executed without missing a beat (or a breath) in the midst of his vocal performance as Gaston...