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...women's art. Their work has incorporated techniques of traditional "women's work" -- quilting, embroidery, crafts -- or explored female sexuality. Inspired by Islamic and Near Eastern designs, Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff and others have produced large works resembling huge swatches of patterned fabric. Their tableaux infused geometric abstraction's smooth, minimalist surfaces with an explosion of zigzags and curlicues. Thus during the 1970s emerged the style called pattern and decoration...
...first thing I noted, with some pleasure, was the engine performance. In the basic sedan, the 1.9-liter, 85-h.p. engine is both peppy and smooth. The 16-valve, 123-h.p. version of the same engine is downright exciting, particularly with a standard shift, and reportedly has a top speed of 120 m.p.h. The five-speed stick shift runs smoothly through the gears, as does the four-speed automatic. Saturn's suspension is supple enough so that at high speed on a bumpy road, the car was perfectly stable. Some critics have complained about excessive engine noise in the Saturn...
They begin to form when he is still an adolescent, smooth fatty streaks on the interior wall of a major coronary artery -- the ominous consequence of a typically American high-cholesterol, high-fat diet. By his 20s, the streaks have formed plaques, growths with a fatty center covered by a fibrous cap of smooth muscle cells. By his 40s, the plaque, its buildup accelerated by smoking and high blood pressure, has protruded well into the bloodstream, closing 65% of the arterial passage. The blood swirls and eddies dangerously as it forces its way past the swelling obstructions...
Next thing you know, they'll start in on us about dry, peeling belly buttons and earlobes: "Try `Lobes-So-Soft' for smooth, supple folds of skin...
...even seen a grass-roots campaign like this?" I say, Yes, I covered George Wallace in 1968 and 1972. Yet the dynamics are as different here as is the candidate. The early Wallace was a colorful Southern racist, at one with his followers' ancient prejudices. Duke is a smooth outsider, an intellectual of an alien ideology who has tempered his appeal to fit people's anxieties...