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Clinton is smart, and a good listener. Even when he runs for student government at Georgetown University, and seems a bit slick for a campus politician, he is far more thoughtful, professional and sympathetic than any recent Harvard Undergraduate Council candidate. At Georgetown, he also gets a prominent government job working for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. There Clinton, a character who had accepted rules without challenging them, senses forces that lead him to rebellion and reverses his support for the Vietnam...
...dementia are closely related to reality. As eccentric as his creatures may be, they are beguiling and invite the viewer to escape into a never-ending carnival of unabashed hedonism. In their lush use of brilliant colors, Nolde's works are hypnotic. Nolde often camouflages macabre elements beneath slick colors. The lithograph series of a "Young Couple" (1913) features a red print. Unlike the figures in its green and blue counterparts, the red couple shares a chemistry that is palpably heated and sexual. Nolde's red is so freshly applied that it could be blood submerging the lovers...
Basketball is called the city game, but that's not quite right. The really slick American city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids--mostly poor black kids--into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School...
Unfortunately for Jack, it is the slick Yardley Acheman who winds up consoling lonely Charlotte. But Jack has found other reasons to dislike Yardley. He has noticed that Ward does all the hard digging for facts: He wanted to have it exactly right. Yardley hangs around waiting to put his stylish spin on what Ward uncovers. "We get into too much detail," Jack hears Yardley complain at one point. "It ruins the narrative flow." Yardley comes up with a crucial and convenient piece of the puzzle...
...course, e-mail is not the only way a virus can be transmitted, and indeed, it is quite a rare means of transmission since it is pretty klunky (most computer programmers, especially the unhappy souls who spawn viruses, prefer to be "slick" in their work...