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...foul weather controlled most of the play as the slick ball handling and treacherous footing restricted the open play and resulted in a lack of tries, rugby's equivalent of a touchdown. The Crimson scored the only points in the first half on a 15-yard Bott penalty kick from the right side, after a Tiger attempted to play the ball after being tackled...
...would not take him to be one of the CIA'S top men. Indeed, he is now unrecognized even by the CIA, particularly a slick, thick deskman (Ned Beatty) who makes the mistake of canning Matthau or not sticking by the book when he breaks up a Soviet spy ring in Munich. Walter's revenge is what the rest of the film is about...
...viewing a TV ad a useful way for a voter to decide who is to be President? The familiar charge is that candidates are packaged like detergents and voters are manipulated by slick sales techniques. The media men who advise both Carter and Reagan contend that they do neither. All they do, they insist, is to permit their candidates to appear before millions in ways that bring out their best traits, not filtered or diffused by the TV news editor, who often catches a candidate at his worst in a public event, or the print reporter, who interprets what...
Corporate product-plugging accounts for the presence of such mediocre bands as the Urban Verbs, Pearl Harbor and Robin Lane, all of which sound slick, derivative and, well, utterly tame in comparison to their earlier counterparts...
First copies of the Dial, a slick new monthly about television, were winning rave reviews from charter subscribers this month. Billed as a program guide to public television, the Dial also features articles by first-class writers: Wilfrid Sheed on sports, Auberon Waugh on Alec Guinness, Stanley Kauffmann on acting. But the magazine was unexpectedly panned by the House of Representatives, then by the U.S. Postal Service. Reason: the Dial- which will be sent to 650,000 PBS-TV supporters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as part of their $25-minimum contribution-is bursting with...