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...primary, which has been almost unrelievedly pessimistic about the Republicans' chances in November 1996. None of the frontrunners is considered able to beat President Clinton, who has been decidedly less than popular throughout his term. Bob Dole is too old, Pat Buchanan is too mean, Lamar Alexander is too slick--somehow, the world-shaking gains of 18 months ago seem to have been dissipated...
With theater such as the macabre pre-scripted Gingrich-Clinton budget dance, the Slick One from Arkansas is fraudulently portrayed as the defender of the very people he has been bashing for three years...
...campaign's biggest expense so far was a Dick Morris-inspired $2.4 million ad campaign last summer featuring three slick commercials on the President's crime-fighting record. This was meant to inoculate Clinton against any G.O.P. soft-on-crime attacks and also warn off any other Democrats with big dreams...
...RESULT OF THE SUCCESS OF THE movie Waiting to Exhale, Jack E. White is concerned that there will be more "slick Hollywood trash'' films made from books about African Americans [DIVIDING LINE, Jan. 15]. This is an indication that White has not grasped a few bottom-line realities in the motion-picture industry. Waiting to Exhale is about money, and Hollywood is a bottom-line town. That is why box-office receipts are kept track of so closely. When African-American talents such as Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, director Forest Whitaker and author Terry McMillan become common household names like...
...person, however, Natchez is not the slick, hyper-dressed stage presence of Skavoovie; quiet and personable, he doesn't seem that different from any other teenager, slightly anxious at his first solo interview...