Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case you don't get th' point about th' "disease," th' mother acts real paranoid about germs, n' a lamb gets maggots. Also, there's an impending plague of another sort: what th' son calls a "zombie invasion," zombies bein' all th' slick nobodies who're buyin' up land in th' West n' turnin' it into housin' developments n' shoppin' malls...
...might guess, Weston n' Ella don't get along too well. Each is tryin't' sell th' ranch from under th' other's nose--Weston t' a tacky nightclub owner named Ellis (Caroline Bicks), Ella t' a slick lawyer who's th' head zombie (Ethan Mintz). This sounds like th' set-up for a farce, n' it would be if everyone wasn't so serious n' aware of th' future about t' crash down on 'em like a watermelon on an anthill...
...less thought, less work, and they would only be lumps. Tucker had taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave no dead or slick patches on the surface. Groping, malleability, squeezing, thumbing bespeak a flat-out commitment to the tactile...
...some countries, the influx of American news telecasts has rubbed off on domestic productions, which now copy the slick look of U.S. programs on their own news shows. Not long ago, Japanese broadcasts resembled a televised newspaper, long on talking heads, with little in the way of graphics or live news coverage. "The introduction of CNN to Japan has changed the way the other networks cover foreign news," says Keiji Koyama of Japan's TV Asahi...
WORLD: The Afghanistan pullout signals a slick new Soviet foreign policy...