11 A.M. From the brassy bands of the Mambo craze to the smooth street-corner vocals of the doo-wop era, the Bronx has made its share of contributions to popular culture.
Children rode bicycles on wide smooth streets.
Its roads had the highest percentage of smooth streets -- 64percentt -- and its drivers can expect the fewest jolts per mile: 6.7.
"You're going to end up with the smoothest streets in Baltimore," he said, smiling.
It is a quiet street, sedate, shaded by old trees: a street of tall houses, their facades smooth as white icing, their brickwork the colour of honey.
The Archetypal Good Kid His friends nicknamed Brian P. Monaghan Jr., "slick" -- but not the deceptive, smooth-talking, street-smart kind of slick.
On the other side a miracle awaits: not only smooth paving but street lights that are casually left on even in daytime.Côte d'Ivoire was once the pearl of the region.
It was fun to see Stamos in this sort of role, as a Wall Street smooth-talker who relies on his charm to coerce women into sleeping with him, and thanks to some shady business of poking holes in condoms he impregnates more than a few.
In exchange, Downing Street got smooth passage of the bill.
I know a 3-year-old who prefers the "smooth" parts of "Sesame Street" to the "bumpy" ones, meaning she likes the reduced, graphic world of the animations.
But what I like best (or what I find most horrifying, is probably more accurate) is the theme throughout -- exemplified by this wonderful line -- that the sleazy salesmen and smooth executives running Wall Street don't really understand what they did (or, rather, what they're still doing).
