Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's swing is smooth; his stance is good, his grip is proper and his backswing is slow. He normally gets between 225 and 250 yds. on his drives, but he is troubled by a hook. He is often sharp with his short irons (on a recent Palm Beach outing he unnerved his companions by dropping an approach shot for a birdie 3 on the first hole), and his putting is excellent. He is weakest with his long irons. Says Crosby: "He tops the ball. There's a term we have for that-menacing the field mice...
Mary, Mary. With her criticisms confined to her witticisms, Jean Kerr (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) neatly jabs mankind and womankind with a smooth and engagingly witty comedy about the inconveniences of marriage and divorce...
...part of Moliere is played by George Descrieres, who bears a jarring resemblance to Moliere as he appears in the portraits we have of him. Descrieres and the rest of the company give smooth and wonderfully articulate performances. Each surprise, each change in style and tone, was carried off with a kind of grace I have never seen duplicated in an American theater...
...Bulletin reporters supports the critics. San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher gives his qualified approval of the movie but acknowledges that "at least 90% of the students were not organized by the Communists." Fact is that nobody comes off very well in Operation Abolition. Commentator Lewis reaches for smooth explanations that are not quite there. The windy interludes by committee members get in the way of the documentary itself. And the hell-raising students reflect little glory on higher education. But-as they obviously intended to be-the undisputed stars of the show are the acknowledged Communist witnesses...
...speed for the X-15. He decelerated gradually to subsonic speed, was soon in position for his landing approach at Rogers Dry Lake. Three miles from the touchdown point, he jettisoned the fin under the tail to clear the landing skids, and skidded to a clean landing on the smooth lake bed at 200 m.p.h. Total freeflight time: six minutes...