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...visualize the "large organizing idea as one of those iron chain mats pulled behind by a tractor to smooth over a plowed field. I see the professor climbing up on the tractor seat and away he goes pulling behind his large organizing idea over the bumps and furrows and history until he has smoothed it out to a nice, neat, organized surface, in other words, into a system...
...INSTANCE only does Davies' characterization disappoint. Maria is half-Gypsy, a fact which she conceals partly out of a fear of making herself interesting in a cheap way, but also because her garlicky, long-skirted mother does not conform to her self-image, her need for smooth modernity and rationality. Maria's ostensible embarrassment over her heritage is a dirty trick to play. She is too finely tuned to admit this sort of flaw blithely; by nature a vivid personality. She must and does go to great lengths to avoid trite melodrama. The words she utters...
When he took up the 400 in the spring of his sophomore year. Jones quickly established himself as the best quarter-miler Harvard has ever seen. His smooth stride, blazing speed and sheer strength made him a natural...
Although his tactics have changed, his smooth running style has not. Murrer, who runs the 400 with Jones, describes him as "liquid motion...
...perhaps not. Perhaps the manner of the movie's making says more about the quality of undergraduate ambitions these days than the film's rather conventional view of its subject admits. For Privileged, written with assurance, acted with panache and technically quite smooth and knowing (despite a murky blowup from 16 mm to 35 mm), is, of all things, a student film. It was conceived, created and hustled into the world's film markets by a cooperative of Oxonians in the same age bracket, 20 to 27, as the students they have conspired to place...