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...pretty pleased with my swim--it felt really smooth," Caulkins said in a press conference after the meet. "I don't know what my time would've been in a 50-meter pool, but it might have been close to a world record," she added...
...also has a reputation for its smooth-looking and hard-practiced "flipcatch" stroke--a technique that requires slow stokes and a penchant for ancient history...
...collected, and carefully conceived. Nothing is by chance. No risks are taken, and there are no hard edges or unseemly passions. Instead, there is just a lucid, self-possessed expression so carefully wrought that it seems to be the tasteful product of some fastidious, bespectacled old Swiss metal smith: smooth, accurate, and refined to 24-carat purity. The graceful delicacy, not often found in fiction today, gives the prose an elegiac air of some other century...
...former Illinois Congressman once again pledged an Anderson difference: "I firmly promise that I won't preach." But no sooner did the cameras start to roll than Reverend John was back sermonizing, this time on the follies of the Reagan economic program. That aside, the performance was as smooth as the whir of a blow dryer. The only tough moment came during a commercial break following a segment on Rita Jenrette's tale of congressional philandering. "Say, John," hollered Anchorman Fahey Flynn, "how did you stay in Washington so long without getting into trouble?" Anderson was clearly embarrassed...
William Hurt is long and smooth-muscled and unlined; he looks like an experimental model for the next, higher form of life: Homo computerens. Sigourney Weaver is all beautiful angles and shining intelligence; she could be a Jane Fonda who studied phenomenology at the Sorbonne and washes her face every day with Ivory soap. His voice swoops into baritone breathiness as thoughts pop into his character's mind with the urgency of revelation. Hers is the voice of well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation...