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Fischbeck agrees with the group's general view that Chou En-lai was "smooth, very handsome and quite witty." Speaking through an interpreter, Chou told the Americans at one point: "Now criticize our country." But no one would. Then Chou said: "Well, I can criticize. Those photographers over there wouldn't even let me through. I had to get somebody to push them out of the way." Everyone laughed...
...texture is uniform, smooth matte black. Meadmore's sculptures do not respond to light, but absorb it with a dense matter-of-factness, declaring their absolute distance from the world of nature. Because Meadmore avoids focusing attention on the specific substance of his monoliths (the last question the viewer asks, upon looking at them, is what they are made of), he has managed to free them from the feeling that normally accompanies a sense of great mass -heaviness...
...company expects to snare 10,000 U.S. customers this year. Though the interiors seem cramped, the Mazdas are not cheap: $2,495 for the R-100 and $2,800 for the larger, more powerful RX-2. Their appeal lies in jackrabbit speed and smooth riding. The Mazda can accelerate from zero to 60 m.p.h. in 13 sec., and the faster the car is driven, at least up to 100 m.p.h., the quieter it sounds to passengers...
...Soviet Union has no machinery to ensure a smooth succession. Theoretically, of course, any member of the Politburo can be voted out of office by the Central Committee, but for that to happen would require a major upheaval. Nor can anyone predict with certainty who will emerge as the next party boss?or when. Perhaps it will be a now faceless regional bureaucrat or young technocrat whose name today is unfamiliar in the West. More likely, it will be someone who is not yet in his 60s but is already positioned in the upper reaches of the power structure. There...
...terms of the syntactical construction of two sentences in a manner that suggests that if Bill Moyers doesn't brush up on his Strunk and White the Republic is in trouble. The triviality inevitably derives its impact from the original assertion; thus many pieces are no more than smooth rhetorical tautologies. Columnists are always faced with the dilemma of whether to conclusively demonstrate something trivial or sound the rhetorical trumpets of matters of importance, but Mr. Buckley's problem is that he always chooses to do the latter in such trivial fashion...