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...minded roommate's plan to entrap men by pretending to be more worldly than they are. There is a sweet giddiness to this passage, a nostalgic indulgence of youthful silliness-except that it is the women who are trapped. Katerina becomes pregnant and bears the child of the slick television-type who is briefly her lover, but presses ahead with a career anyway -there's steel under her shyness-and suddenly finds herself in life's second...
...over the fact our interrelationships are destabilized and smooth. On the other hand, it seems a strange intellectual game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then be able to find intelligent reasons for the act later in the week on the pages of our slick arbiter of taste. Either way, it jars. Somehow it smacks of elevating the form without changing the content. Who knows? Maybe Chekhov would have watched the Iowa State Opera's version of "Boris Gudonov" complete with introduction by a genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably...
...leaflet also warned against the "advanced, slick advertising and sales techniques" used by recruiters...
...sobriety. The music that has done the most to build the five-man European company into the world's most thriving jazz label ranges in style and quality from the vaulting improvisational rhapsodies of Keith Jarrett to the congenial jazz-rock fusion of Pat Metheny and the slick sketches of Chick Corea. Jarrett, Metheny and Corea account for most of the label's top ten albums. Jarrett's ravishingly beautiful The Köln Concert, released in 1975, has sold more than 750,000 copies-a strong showing for a double album in any league, even rock...
...suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal a deranging truth: memories of war's exhilarations often outlast the horrors and revulsions...