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Word: smoothed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friedman, who advocates a policy of moderate, steady expansion. For example, the board expands the supply during periods of peak demand, as it did to an extreme degree to help the Treasury finance its huge deficit in fiscal 1968. Through the same kind of maneuvering, the board tries to smooth the ups and downs of the business cycle. Friedman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RISING RISK OF RECESSION | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

FRITZ LANG'S most brilliant act was the creation of Dr. Mabuse. Esteemed psychologist, master-mind counterfeiter, Mabuse prowled fast society "to play with men's lives and men's souls." Disguised as a smooth-faced young compulsive or a solid English gentleman, he gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer The Testament of Dr. Mabuse at 2 Divinity Avenue tonight | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

Melodrama is alive and well in Paris. La Femme Infidèle is a smooth, elegant, feline exercise in psychological suspense, devoted to the proposition that the old formulas, if not the best, are still more entertaining than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feline Frisson | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...structuring color into definite geometric shapes, Minimal Artists give color the permanent stability it lacks in the impressionistic canvases of Olitsky. The smooth unmodulated hue of their minimal works pulls the canvas to an unprecedented flatness. The extensive steady tones glare outwards without suggesting any space for the eye to travel. Though it is difficult to conceive of a flatter picture, it is almost impossible not to see a special relationship between any two colors placed on the same surface. In their simplicity, the chevrons of Noland, thrust across the canvas, are impossible to forget. As the painted surfaces become...

Author: By Cyntiha Saltzman, | Title: At the Met New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until February 1. | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

After holding off intense New Hampshire pressure for the opening ten minutes, Harvard's fluid-smooth hockey team poured in five goals during each of the first two periods and ripped the Wildcats...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Skaters Humble New Hampshire; Cavanagh Nets Three in 11-3 Rout | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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