Word: slick
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...rejoinder "simple stuff." True elegance was on display last Wednesday, when Clinton visited New Orleans, the site of Bush's 1988 "Read my lips" pledge. The centerpiece of the G.O.P. strategy is hardly mysterious. Two words, values and trust, symbolize Bush's attempt to portray Clinton as publicly "too slick" and privately "too loose" to be President. Until last week, when Clinton finally found a way to expand the definition of those words to his benefit, his responses had been less than satisfying. On Tuesday the Administration's Budget Director, Richard Darman, told a congressional hearing that everyone...
...other hand, Clinton is a quintessential politician when the very name has become a swear word. He is a man who builds compromises and is accused of being slick. He tries to please, omnidirectionally, and is accused of pandering. I ask if he ever considered being anything but a politician. Yes, he answers, a doctor, because he saw his mother and her fellow nurses deferring to them. Then a musician. At Oxford, when he thought his opposition to the Vietnam War would preclude a political career in the patriotic South, he seriously considered becoming a journalist. "I would at least...
...broad strokes, Clinton has changed his priorities dramatically. He used to emphasize deficit reduction and tax breaks for the middle class, but now considers "investment" the key to economic growth. Unfortunately, since everything he does and says should be geared toward repressing the conclusion that he is too slick for high office, Clinton is still loath to confess the change. He continues to deny the obvious; his advocacy of a middle-class tax-rate cut was a sop to New Hampshire's strapped primary voters, and his scaling back of that promise today merely confirms a new and more sober...
Many grass-roots supporters fear that the brain trust will turn Perot's maverick run into a mainstream bid for the White House. They are convinced that the candidate is in danger of being packaged by a group of slick operators more interested in returning to power than in revolutionizing government. That argument is reminiscent of the "Let Reagan be Reagan" true believers who accused Washington insiders of badly serving the former President's interests whenever he veered away from the conservative creed...
...Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, who condemned sin by taking his audience through frame after lascivious...