Would get irritated when I'd ask him about things or he'd smooth talk me.
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Joshua Gibbons: Initially it had a lot to do with, quite simply, who I could smooth talk into getting involved.
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But not enough, since she lets him smooth talk her into visiting when they originally planned so they can figure things out.
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In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Joyce Chopra shared that after she won for Smooth Talk in 1986, she was initially overwhelmed with offers.
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Communication planet Mercury enters your house of career on Tuesday when it moves into Scorpio, a superpower that helps you smooth talk those in positions of power.
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Biden's political brand is built around his authenticity and working-class affect, so why should he smooth-talk his way around a baldfaced insult from a voter about his fitness or his son?
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On Tuesday, your planetary ruler Mercury harmonizes with optimistic Jupiter, making you so convincing that you'll be able to smooth talk your way through anything (especially when it comes to work or money).
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When Leah's frustrated with Blue, she changes dialects, transitioning out of the "cool girl" lexicon she uses around her stoner university friends, and into the same highly articulate whine she uses to smooth-talk grown-ups.
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From Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk with incomparable Laura Dern, to Bette Gordon's ballsy exploration of sexuality in Variety, to the British experimental feminist filmmaker Maureen Blackwood, this marvel of rep cinema was one more memorable combo.
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"Smooth Talk" strongly suggests that Dern's character is going off to be raped, but after the film came out, Dern gave a defiant interview in which she stated her belief that the two of them did just go for a drive.
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No matter how many times we've seen her look hurt or bothered by the fact that he'll never be able to give her what she's really looking for — a committed relationship — she still gives in to his smooth talk and tall, muscular build.
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In this telling, the young Savannah is an eager-to-please naïf who falls first for Laura's smooth talk and then for the mounting pleasures that playing this fictional creation delivers, including a relationship with an actress-director wittily played by Diane Kruger.
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One of the applicants whose name was found among the documents in Syria was Karim Mohammad-Aggad, who went to Syria after being enticed by Fares, the bar-hopping recruiter who, he said, used "smooth talk" to convince him and his friends to join.
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The experience made Dern look differently at her role in "Smooth Talk," Joyce Chopra's brilliant evocation of teenage girlhood from 1985, particularly the scene in which her character challenges an older man who shows up at her door and asks her to go for a ride in his car.
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Editorial Jeff Sessions, the senator from Alabama who was once considered too racist to be a federal judge and is now President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, managed to skate through most of the first day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee with smooth talk and a conveniently faulty memory.
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Filming of Smooth Talk took place in northern California in the cities of Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
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Charles Thomas "Tom" Cole (April 8, 1933 – February 23, 2009) was a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for Smooth Talk.
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Early in his career Marx was a producer for the PBS series American Playhouse, where he produced 8 independent movies or miniseries, including the Sundance grand prize winner Smooth Talk (associate producer),Smooth Talk Sam Shepard's True West with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise (line producer), Pete Gurney's The Dining Room, the mini-series Roanoak, Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Cafeteria, Carol Bly's Rachel River, and Richard Nelson's Sensibility and Sense.
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Mrs. Hamilton (voiced by Lee Tockar): is the Mother of Bling-Bling Boy and Mr. Hamilton's Wife. She is very harsh with her son, and is always screaming but is calmed by smooth talk.
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This was the first of two novels by Richard Adams he adapted. In 1982 he also produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for another animated feature based on an Adams novel, The Plague Dogs (1982). Rosen produced Smooth Talk (1986), which won the Sundance Grand Prize. His last film as director was Stacking (1987).
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The criminal Willis Trent wants to rob the safety deposit box of a crooked Los Angeles businessman, Paul De Camp. He has lawyer Earl Farraday smooth-talk the guy's girlfriend, the two-timing Flo Randall, into revealing the bank box's number. Now they need a locksmith. A henchman called Herbie is sent to find one.
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Much of Chopra's work treats the themes of sexuality and sensuality of women. These films often focus on the transitional periods in women's lives. Smooth Talk is concerned with puberty; Joyce at 34 focuses on pregnancy; and The Lemon Sisters centers around new loves, lifestyles, and new career choices. Her other works — mostly documentary — focus on youth.
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Tony cannot bring himself to do this and seems to have decided to break with his brother's criminality. Inside the church, Teena informs Rome she will not go away with him. As he tries to smooth-talk Teena into changing her mind, Candella arrives and fills the girl in on all the human wreckage Rome has left behind him. Teena leaves.
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Smooth Talk is a 1985 American drama film directed by Joyce Chopra, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid. The protagonist and main character, Connie Wyatt, is played by Laura Dern. The antagonist, Arnold Friend, is played by Treat Williams.
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He denies what they were talking about and after shouting some choice curse words, she runs into the woods, never to return to school. Over time, he begins to smooth talk her and they finally become a couple. Her parents disapprove of him being five years older and forbid her to see him. Against their wishes, she continues to see him discreetly.
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One of their first collaborations was a PBS American Playhouse production Medal of Honor Rag in 1982. Her first narrative feature-length film, Smooth Talk (1985), won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and was adapted by Tom Cole.
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Stanton (like the others) is attracted to her but she is unimpressed by his smooth talk and poverty. Stanton cons his way into a job with Professor Madley (John Carradine), a traveling fortune-teller. No one is willing to buy tickets to the "spook act" because an influential local spinster, Clara Mills (Anne Revere), disapproves. Stanton gets to Clara through her inexperienced younger sister June (Faye) and persuades them to attend the performance.
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King released her debut album, Smooth Talk, in 1977. It included the song "Shame", which is her only top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #9; the song also reached #7 Soul and #8 on the dance chart. The record was eventually certified gold. Another single from that album, "I Don't Know If It's Right", peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 Soul; it would become her second certified gold single.
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Beginning with the 3rd Edition, each score has a corresponding ability modifier, where Modifier = , rounded down. It acts as a bonus or penalty depending on a character's ability scores. This modifier is added to the appropriate dice rolls. For example, the strength modifier would be added to the damage dealt by a sword, the dexterity modifier to Armor Class (see below) as the character's ability to dodge attacks, and the charisma modifier to an attempt to smooth-talk a merchant.
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Smooth Talk is the debut album, released in 1977 by R&B; singer Evelyn "Champagne" King by RCA Records and produced by Theodore Life. It contains singles "Shame", also one of King's signature songs, and "I Don't Know If It's Right", both of which were hits in the United States and Canada. Outside North America in music charts, "Shame" performed modestly in a few European countries, while the latter charted in the United Kingdom and New Zealand but performed poorly there.
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The kishi is a two-faced demon in Angola. According to legend, a kishi has an attractive human man's face on the front of its body and a hyena's face on the back. Kishi are said to use their human face as well as smooth talk and other charms to attract young women, who they then eat with the hyena face. The hyena face is said to have long sharp teeth and jaws so strong they cannot be pulled off anything it bites.
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In 1966, Joyce Carol Oates published the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", about a teenage girl being charmed and menaced by a predatory man; she was inspired in part by the Schmid case. The story is dedicated to Bob Dylan because Oates was also inspired by his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." The story was adapted into a 1986 film Smooth Talk, in which Schmid's character, Arnold Friend, is played by Treat Williams.
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The controversy fractured the Bible Student movement and some congregations split into opposing groups loyal either to Rutherford or those he had expelled.Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993) identifies opposing sides as "those loyal to the Society and those who were easy prey to the smooth talk of the opposers" (p. 68). Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses (1975) dismisses the four ousted directors as "rebellious individuals who claimed to be board members" (p. 87) and men who "ambitiously sought to gain administrative control of the Society" (p. 92).
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The SS tried different tactics to get them to sign, but very few did so. After describing various unspeakable tortures he underwent in the course of his four years in Mauthausen, he said: “Towards the end of 1944 Himmler’s special deputy, SS-Hauptsturmbannfüher Kramer, came from Berlin to try and persuade us to sign, with various promises and smooth talk. When he met with the decisively adverse attitude of the Witnesses, repressions against us started. We were distributed into blocks, so that nowhere would two brothers [Witnesses] live together.
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Lingk's wife has ordered him to cancel the sales contract he signed with Roma. Roma attempts to smooth-talk Lingk into not canceling the contract, informing Lingk that his check has not yet been brought to the bank; this begins to have its intended calming effect on Lingk, who is clearly agitated. Levene supports the ruse, but Williamson, thinking Lingk is worried about the safety of his check, accidentally ruins Roma's ploy when he tells Lingk that his check has just been deposited. Lingk abruptly leaves, telling Roma he's sorry for letting him down.
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For over twenty years in the week preceding the parade, there is an election for Dahlia Queen (and more recently: Princess Dahlia). She acts as hostess, awards, give interviews and opens the parade of floats and parade bands on the last Saturday of August. Every lady of sixteen years and older is eligible for the honorary position and can apply at the Vollenhoofse Association for public entertainment (vvvv). Although there are some selection rules which the candidates are assessed during the show, such as charm, spontaneity and a smooth talk.
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The next morning the snake is gone & the real Appanna comes in and is surprised to see a cheerful Rani and scolds her. A perplexed Rani prepares food and Appanna leaves as usual (to the farm, followed by a drinking session with friends & Cheluvi's house at night). At night, a melancholic Rani is waiting near the door for Appanna and the snake arrives in Appanna's form behind her and startles her. She runs in fer to her room, but Appanna pacifies her and wins her over with smooth talk.
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Blade realizes this and sees Duncan as his ticket permanently out of jail, since Duncan could pass his classes with ease. He transforms Duncan into a version of himself with dreadlocks, and does his best to teach Duncan how to act and talk like a gangsta. Having no grasp of hip hop culture, Duncan's parents begin to worry about their son's new "friend"; his father especially, beginning to suspect Duncan is gay. Blade manages to smooth-talk his way through his advanced classes, even successfully executing a dissertation on sexual intercourse (one of his favorite subjects).
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After the party land, they are questioned by a Scotland Yard detective, who is investigating the murder of the Colonial officer. Just as he seems taken in by Peterson's smooth talk, Gwendolen reveals Peterson's scheme, his involvement in the murder and his attempt to kill Harry. The detective promptly arrests Peterson, O'Hara, Ross, and Ravello. As the four crooks are led away in handcuffs, Gwendolen receives a telegram from British East Africa saying that Harry has acquired the land where Peterson and the others were aiming to enrich themselves; he is now extremely wealthy and willing to forgive Gwendolen.
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Jaha who rides a motorcycle with his friend, quickly stopped and beat that guy with the help of his friends. After a short conversation with the girl, Jaha offers to send the girl to his home, telling her that she will be alright as he found out that the girl is actually running from his home. After arriving home, he offered the girl to stay in comfort of his room because the fact that the house is actually lived by other male housemates. Jaha has started to smooth talk with the girl and manage to know that the girl has committed adultery with his boyfriend.
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Tyler Brennen (Jay Karnes) was a ruthless gunrunner and former military intelligence operative. He is the first villain-of-the-week to become a recurring character and the first person whom Michael can never smooth-talk into doing anything.2009 San Diego Comic-Con International panel, available on Season 3 DVD box set In the season two episode "Sins of Omission", he kidnaps the young son of professional thief (and Michael's former fiancée) Samantha Kees (Dina Meyer) to force her to steal the MacGuffin-of-the-week, which he expects will yield enough money to retire. Michael, dispensing with the use of cover identities and approaching Brennen as himself, frees Samantha's son and tricks Brennen into letting him return the item to its rightful owner, forcing Brennen to go on the run from his buyers.
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In its account of the events of 1917, the Society's 1993 history book Jehovah's Witnesses--Proclaimers of God's Kingdom refers to the opposing camps as "those loyal to the Society and those who were easy prey to the smooth talk of the opposers", describing Rutherford's opponents as "disturbers" (pg. 68); The Watchtower of April 1, 1955 described the ousted directors as "ambitious opponents", "rebellious ones" and "anti-society sick ones" and describes those who supported them as "deceived ones"; 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses dismissed the four ousted directors as "rebellious individuals who claimed to be board members" (pg. 87) and men who "ambitiously sought to gain administrative control of the Society" (pg. 92). The 1959 history book Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose also claims the legal advice given to the ousted directors confirmed that given to Rutherford.
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In the song a man has just been released from a 90-day prison sentence for "non-support" and, believing himself to be "an undiscovered Howard Hughes" and "a genius," tries to smooth-talk his way into an executive position. Every company he tries turns him down, stating they have no openings, which forces him to accept menial work at a car wash. While begrudgingly doing his duties, he fantasizes about the executive life and imagines himself sitting in an air-conditioned office (as compared to the reality of working "at this indoor Niagara Falls"), smoking cigars, drinking martinis, appearing in high-society magazines, and making sexual remarks at his secretary. The original title of the song was "I got them steadily depressing, low down, mind messing, working at the carwash blues" (as sung in the song); However, it was shortened before the singles release.
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She is later found guilty and flees the house to avoid her sentencing, leaving a goodbye note for the girls. Meanwhile, Joy learns that her son has decided to not see her just yet, but that's the least of her problems: She just learned that the INS plans to deport her back to England, so she must find a way to get a green card... which is where Rick comes in. Although she does accept his offer of "marriage" (knowing that Rick still plans to be a "player"), this unusual relationship and Rick's plan to use this ruse to bed other women would be ruined when Rick tried to smooth talk their immigration lawyer. On top of that, she tells Elka after being arrested by Pete for taking money in a rummage sale drug deal (she sold a guy Victoria's "chill pills") that she was a shoplifter as a teenager.
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During the battle that ensued, however, Stockman wound up accidentally flying between the two pylons of the device, and disappeared in a flash of energy. Stockman returned in the third-season episode "Return of the Fly", beginning a series of episode titles that referenced and homaged those of typical horror B movies. Having been shunted out of phase with our dimension, the invisible, intangible Stockman could still observe the world around him, and spent months searching the sewers as a wraith, eventually locating the Turtles' lair and forming a plan to get revenge on both them and the Shredder at the same time. Realigning his molecules with the rest of reality by allowing himself to be struck by a lightning bolt, Stockman kidnapped April O'Neil in order to lure the Turtles into his trap, but once again, the Shredder was able to smooth- talk the addle-brained fly into teaming up with him again.
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