Word: slick
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...major stories during the day, and network stars like Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric and Bob Costas took turns as host of a nightly interview show called InterNight. (Just how long they will continue to do double-duty for MSNBC remains to be seen.) With its pleasantly bustling set, slick presentation and hot-wired anchors, MSNBC made CNN look a little dowdy...
...obliges. It is a headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayals, assassinations, Richter-scale romance and, of course, family values. As in its famous predecessor, unquestioned loyalty, unexamined cash flow and expedient ways of dealing with competition are givens, but this story is set in the '80s--and the slick Clericuzios make the Corleones seem as if they just got off the boat. Gone from the new novel are the entry-level rackets and suspiciously profitable olive-oil business. Instead, family head Don Domenico Clericuzio rules an Exxon of organized crime aided by a son with a degree from Wharton...
...Slick Scots, glamorous heroin addiction, even a dead baby--but who cares, really? Apparently not the makers of the much-heralded "Trainspotting," who give us a rock'n'roll video of a movie whose wall-to-wall brogues and stretches of humor gloriously fall short of hopes for relentlessly hip status. It may look neat for a while--we've all been waiting for the Scottish "Kids," haven't we?--but the tiresome unreality of its "brutal reality" becomes maddening as the film's soundtrack pounds...
...novel, Lily White (HarperCollins; 460 pages; $25), carries on cheerfully with this agreeable storytelling. The main character, Lily White, is a 45-year-old defense attorney whose new client is a gifted con man. He's a tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged women, and he is very good at it. Alas, however, his latest conquest has been found dead, with the marks of large hands on her throat...
...design company they started at a truck depot. Today his firm, Vidus, employs 40 people who design and sell labels for products from all over Russia. Revenues exceed $4.5 million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice...