Word: smoothness
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...that melts after contact with Chili’s genuine cool. But when everyone is a gangster there is no such contrast. The characters’ behavior quickly becomes an absurd oversimplification of music business stereotypes: women are sensual, blacks are gang members regardless of their lifestyles, Italians are smooth mobsters, Jews are only interested in money, and gay men are overtly feminine...
...confirmed that she is one of the few characters that has remained true-blue, but also hinted at the complete absurdity of the Kirsten-Sandy marital strife that has threatened the purity of The OC bubble. The Cohens are the foundation of the show—the handsome, Jewish, smooth-talking husband and the gorgeous, WASPy, wine-guzzling wife. They are the perfect couple, the parents every college-aged fan secretly longs for. And now suddenly, the man with more integrity in his left testicle than the entire OC population is compromising his marriage for an unattractive anarchist? In Orange...
...Request something mild, smooth and light-colored, such as a Davidoff or an Ashton, to start...
Perhaps screenwriters Frank Cappello, Kevin Brodbin, and Mark Bomback inserted the line to smooth over some of the ugly stitches in this Frankenstein of a religious piece. But like paranormal John Constantine himself, audiences can’t help but see the ugly truth beneath the skin. Some plot points are never adequately explained: how did Constantine return from hell the first time? When and how did Satan have a son? Characters’ motivations are equally murky—Gabriel, for example, comes off as part saint, part sadist, and we’re left guessing whether the archangel...
Then came a 57-52 home defeat to Brown. That loss should have set off the warning bells; not since 1995-96 had the Tigers dropped their Ivy opener. Most fans and pundits, however, figured it was just a bump in an otherwise smooth road to the NCAA tournament. But after a win over Yale, Princeton traveled to Hanover and got beaten by the Big Green. And not beaten in any conventional manner—Dartmouth scored 18 of the game’s final 19 points to pull off the upset. Something was clearly wrong...