Fossilised features of antiarch fish suggest that early intercourse was not the smoothest of affairs, with males faced with the task of steering their bony L-shaped organs between twin genital plates that adorned the females like tiny cheese graters.
Flirtatious women ask to see Xavier's revolver ("a smooth, six-chambered affair that he kept well oiled").
In contrast to last year's nervous, muted ceremony, which coincided with the opening salvos of the war in Iraq, the 76th Academy Awards was a smooth-running and glitzy affair, marked by a return to the traditional fashion parades on the red carpet outside the Kodak Theatre.
For his part, the 35-year-old Mr. Aronsohn -- who took this job after having been a press officer at the State Department in the Clinton administration, said the scrapes with the press had been unintentional, and that the administration was still trying to smooth out its public affairs operation.
Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the single a "folky, midtempo R'n'B mush-fest", and said that, "The whole affair is smoother than Lulu's forehead in the new Morrisons [UK supermarket chain] ad, but it's almost criminal that Rihanna's releasing this when 'Breakin' Dishes' and 'Don't Stop The Music', a couple of flat-out floorfillers, are still stuck on her album".
Bailey's two-year affair with a smooth barrister Nick Savage Rupert Gravess) ended with a judder of personal revelations when it turned out that his big surprise wasn't an engagement ring but a wife and two kids – her razor-sharp intuition apparently deserting her outside the office.
Mr. Rutelli, a smooth campaigner despite limited experience in national affairs, has had an easier time than Mr. Berlusconi.
The smooth talk and worldly wit that gets the affairs started and keeps them going remain unimagined.
"Everyone I know who's ridden in an MV-1 says it's a very smooth ride," said Jean Ryan, vice president for public affairs at Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York, who has tried out the cab's ramp.
