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Current offerings include the George Bush burger ("not for the faint of heart") and the Bill Clinton burger ("don't inhale this slick burger...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: MR. AND MRS. BARTLEY'S | 9/26/1992 | See Source »

...soulful melodies set a widely influential musical style, fitting perfectly around Brown's slim vocal talents. Naturally, expectations were out of sight for Brown's latest solo outing, Bobby, which assembles the same producers as Cruel. The album, however, doesn't pack the wallop to distinguish it from other slick R. & B. records on the charts these days. Something in Common, a ballad Brown shares with his wife Whitney Houston is typical of the problem: short on juice but heavy on sap. New jack may not be exhausted, but right now Bobby is fresh out of new ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Sep. 21, 1992 | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...family-values part of the Republican production was, as they kept saying of Bill Clinton, relentlessly slick. It depended on a sort of grieving, part- nostalgic assumption that Americans live amid unwholesome aliens (homosexual teachers who want to proselytize, condom distributors, abortion-mongers, she-devil lawyers named Hillary) in a postlapsarian age, after some immense moral fall (whenever or whatever that may have been), something that has gone hugely wrong in American life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...Slick Willie talks like John Wayne but acts like Gomer Pyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston Diary | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

...Come on over and meet the real "Slick Willie...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Houston Diary | 8/18/1992 | See Source »

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