Word: smoothly
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...alcohol. But when Bruce Willis sings about golden wine coolers, you have to get your drink on. I showed up at parties with Seagram's wine coolers, and people would say, 'What are you, crazy? We have a keg. We have vodka.' But no. I'm Bruce Willis smooth...
...interview early, clearly disgusted by my occupation--but it's a likeable weird. When I leave, he does perhaps the strangest alpha-male thing of all, something I've never heard an interviewee do. He nods approvingly and says, "Good job." You can't be Willis-smooth unless you play the game...
...success of the pub, which would look much different if administrators had adopted the designs of the firm they initially hired to make a plan for a campus bar. That company first proposed a three-dimensional grid for the walls and then, in a second attempt, a design featuring smooth benches molded out of the wooden walls. But throughout the process, students who were consulted were said to call for a more traditional pub, and the College eventually hired a new firm to design the space...
Etchemendy was admired by Harvard professors in particular for his smooth relations with Stanford’s faculty. But he made it clear to the committee in the early fall that he was not a candidate for the presidency, and was not asked by the committee to appear for an interview, according to an individual familiar with Etchemendy’s activities during the search. His lack of ties to Harvard concerned some committee members, but not enough to thwart his candidacy...
During my time as a Harvard undergraduate, the relationship between these two aspects of my identity was not always so smooth...