Word: slick
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...feel manipulated when Aaron ultimately comes out as the king of the hill, beating the odds of the Depression. Careful not to portray Aaron as a slick and smug Ferris Bueller type, Bradford plays him as a wide-eyed, ingenious little boy who is as amazeds as we are when he does triumph...
...billion people disagree with you, Mr. Ryan. One more billion and you'll right there with Slick Willy...
...Beavis and Butthead" is unusual because it parodies MTV, and satirizes the network's viewers. The two lead characters are crudely drawn figures, not slick, pretty veejays. They are early-pubescent morons, not post-pubescent rock icons...
...actors in it. For the audience it's a vivid exercise in style. Or more precisely, an exercise in fashion. Scott made his name directing British TV spots; he can make each image yummy, seductive, good enough to buy, whether the scene is selling sex, violence or some slick sociopathic blend of the two. He pummels your eye with wide-screen close-ups that eroticize violence and give a lurid threat to the sex. The love scene is a French- kissin', torso-lickin' jeans ad set to cinema. In the big shoot-out at the end, bloody cushion feathers smother...
...unattractive, with disheveled hair and a goofy demeanor. (To gain pity point, you've got to cultivate the right image; although Wisconsin candidate Russ Feingold eventually won a Senate seat, his come-from-behind ads, though similar in content to Wellstone's, were far less effective. Feingold, a visibly slick state politician, announced that he was a Rhodes Scholar and then declared himself "the underdog running for the Senate...