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...become what Soho is," she says. "Just look what happened there. After the artists moved in, the area became enough after. Rents went up and poorer artiest were forced to move out. More commercial types like advertising executives moved in, and the area became more and more sophisticated and slick. Well, I don't want to move to a slummy section of town just became developers like the areas where artists stay. Artists are being used as pawns in the property development game. To move my studio at this stage would set me back a couple of years--it just...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...
...December, most diplomatic analysts in San Salva dor estimated that D'Aubuis son, who is known locally as "Major Bob," would be lucky if his party were chosen by 1,000 of the country's 1 million to 1.5 million eligible voters. Now, its appeal bolstered by slick public relations techniques and energetic grass roots campaigning that emphasize law and order, ARENA'S popular strength is estimated at 15% of the electorate, vs. the Christian Democrats' 40%. ARENA'S popular support is still rising. Says one Western diplomat in El Salvador: "D'Aubuisson...
...Neither slick nor glib, they all suit a film that may finally disarm everyone with its full-frontal naturalness, its unsmirking bawdiness, its obvious liking for athletes as people, and its refusal (most of the time) to poeticize sport. Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed...
...does not help this 90-minute intermissionless drama that most key crises in Frances' life happen offstage or that so much time is spent with peripheral characters about whom one could not care less. The language bruises the ear, ricocheting between period brassiness ("There's one slick bozo," "There's this bimbo there givin' me the glad eye") to sorry flights of pseudopoetic home truths. On the other hand, the nickelodeon-like music of Claibe Richardson tickles the ear. Apart from Dunaway, the only one who threatens to run away with the show is Designer John...