Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Science Foundation is setting up an elaborate camp in Marie Byrd Land to study the strange magnetic ducts that arch through space and carry radio waves between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. > The U.S., Britain and Russia are leading a smooth-running Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, which is already working out plans for securing valuable weather data in the international "quiet sun" year in 1964-65. Expected to be of great help: the U.S. Tiros satellites...
...this is an encouraging issue of Comment. If the articles are not smooth or profound, they do at least grapple with current events and provoke thought. And that is no small service...
...pulls out a plug and psssssssss, the car deflates and shrinks until it is a speck on the sand. He pumps up a surfboard. He pumps up fish. He pumps up a girl. He doesn't like her looks, so he tries again. The new broad is smooth, supple, lissome -but there is something wrong. Two quick final puffs and her bikini brassiere is properly filled...
...study of Texas and the Texans, whom he dubs The Super-Americans. Bainbridge is a veteran profiler for The New Yorker (where most of the book first appeared), and The Super-Americans has all the best (and traces of the worst) of New Yorker style-urbane detachment, smooth understatement, and relentless pyramiding of minutiae that sometimes suggests a late evening with a victim of total recall. But though The Super-Americans might not suffer much by being cut 100 pages, it is a perceptive and entertaining Baedeker-in-depth...
...college's hundredth anniversary. Command Performance is, as intended, "a new musical and dramatic work of major proportions," replete with operatic poses. Its singers deliver love duets into empty space. Its music appeals and its ending is happy. As a dramatic production it never bogs down. It is smooth and polished, though hardly profound...