Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that viewers often had trouble telling the paid political announcements from the evening news. Unlike Walter Mondale's campaign, Reagan's appearances were as meticulously staged as his commercials. Unlike Mondale, Reagan moved away from the traditional political spots-direct, issue oriented, slightly jarring-and embraced the sleek, atmospheric slow-dissolve appeals usually reserved for selling Coke and Almost Home cookies. The marketing of the President, through both paid commercials and the "free media" provided on televised news clips, was so skillfully coordinated that it will almost surely change the standard for future national campaigns...
...pressed the man who had once been his patron to yield to him his ownership of a restaurant that he coveted. He forced Mafia Don Frank Lupo, 56, out of his established territory. The don had to set himself up a new one in Miami. Bonventre bought himself a sleek, red Ferrari and took to wearing evening clothes as he held court at his newly acquired Brooklyn restaurant. Finally, he talked of going to war with the powerful Gambino family...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Cristina Ferrare, 34, sleek fashion model and chatty new co-host of the TV talk show A.M. Los Angeles; from John De Lorean, 59, financially troubled automaker who was acquitted seven weeks ago on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. The image of staunch wifely devotion during the four-month trial, Cristina is seeking custody of the children and a share of her husband's disputed assets...
...work. For years he has received international recognition; recently he has been accorded museum shows in Europe and the U.S. Other Japanese designers will get their first official portion of Western respect from New Fashion Japan, a fast, smart and wholly seductive volume. Leonard Keren's sleek text is augmented with graphics that convey the essence of contemporary Japanese clothing design, plus a suggestion of its enterprise and a taste of its excitement...
...purpose of test flights is to flirt with what pilots call the outer edge of the envelope, to push a plane to the limits of its capability and see what it can do. That is what one of the prototypes of the sleek plane was attempting over the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California last week when it plunged to the ground in a fiery crash. It was the first serious accident in 418 test flights of B-1 prototypes since...