Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the novel's smooth facade of Perry Masonry, there is a buttressing of convincing characterization and of uncommonly literate, witty and flavorful writing. Behind the suspense, there is an equally compelling exploration of the self-contradictions of two cultures, of justice and flawed...
...Johnson said, "a real pleasant, lovely airplane." He had been able to take off within the remarkably short distance of 3,000 ft., and was impressed by the short smooth landing. He shrugged off the flap failure as just one of those things. He said that the F-111 was "more ready than any plane I've tested...
...Thuita well knew, the best way to begin any examination is by taking the patient's pulse. "If the pulse leaps like a frog," he explained, "the problem is in the throat. If it jumps like a cow, it is in the gastric system, and if it is smooth as a snake, then it is in the belly...
...painter laureate. It is an exhibition for strong stomachs. Limbs were blotched and misshapen, rolls of flesh sagged swollen and pocked. In the background of the paintings were tumbles of battered objects, microscopically detailed, and all in ripe decay. Presiding over this exhumation was the master himself, smooth jowled, red cheeked and full of protesting innocence. "What I am really trying to do is to make a coherent statement about life," he said, "one that will force people to meditate a bit. I want to jar the observer into thinking, to make him uncomfortable. But I am not telling...
...combining 120 separate spectroscopic measurements, Dr. Strong and his assistants got a smooth curve showing how strongly the Venusian clouds reflect different wave lengths of solar infrared. This curve matched almost perfectly the reflection spectrum of an ice-crystal cloud observed in the laboratory. It was wholly different from the curves of dust, liquid carbon dioxide, liquid formaldehyde and the other noxious substances that are generally considered to be the content of Venusian clouds...