Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seiji showed prescience and boldness in leading the Seibu stores to the forefront of Japanese retailing. The increasingly astute businessman predicted that young, affluent Japanese would spend more than their parents and guessed that they would prefer high-priced, stylish goods. Seiji's rise has not been totally smooth. In the mid-1970s Yoshiaki rescued his half brother from ruin when the Seibu Kanko Kaihatsu company, a leisure, real estate and tourism group, incurred debts of $550 million. The terms of the rescue were never disclosed, and it is not known whether the help was appreciated or resented...
...segment 94-min. tour through . the Glove's wide-ranging but uneasy imagination. Besides a lively montage of Jackson's career ("a retrospective of 24 years of hits"), Moonwalker includes some nifty clay and cutout animation, as well as a "centerpiece" spun out around Michael's superbly spooky song Smooth Criminal. Jackson becomes, literally, what so many people have already accused him of being: a special effect. All of Moonwalker is heavily shrouded in fantasy -- of persecution, of reprisal, of reclaiming lost innocence -- but compromised by its own willful and slightly desperate flash...
Philosopher, lawyer, teacher, former tackle for the Williams College "Ephmen" and compulsive thrasher in smooth waters, Bennett has clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings. They are expected to go his way, despite a legion of ruffled academics left from his 3 1/2 iconoclastic years at Education. He suggested, among other things, that tony universities were not giving students their big money's worth...
...made a very smooth transition from high school to major college basketball," Roby said. "We knew he was going to be an impact player right away, but he's turned out even better than expected...
...leveraged company's swollen debt, he talked of shifting RJR headquarters from Atlanta, where Johnson moved it last year, back to its traditional home in Winston-Salem, N.C. Kravis said he will install retired RJR chairman J. Paul Sticht, 71, in the top job again for several months to smooth the transition...