Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with art? The sprawling, sometimes rambling narrative indulges in an uncomfortable amount of kitchen psychoanalysis ("The only thing that can explain this man, with his chain smoking, pills, liquor, insomnia, and need for crowds, is incredible pain") in arguing that Bernstein's background has forged the schizoid musician, from slick tunesmith to leonine conductor, that he has become. In Peyser's view -- formed with the partial cooperation of Bernstein, who gave her permission to use some personal letters -- the works of the artist cannot be understood without taking into account the character...
...black boot came through the door, then another, followed by the unmistakable odor of grease and grenadine. The black tweed jacket, the streak of slick-backed hair, the 10-pack of black, Bic ball-point pens. "Who is this...
Texasville is McMurtry's eleventh novel, and by now his wonderfully loose- jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams between the ambling lies of the 19th century frontier yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the 20th century novelist. When the tall tales have room to unwind to the horizon, as they do in Lonesome Dove (1985), McMurtry's haunting legend of the last cattle drives, the result is extraordinary. This sort of storytelling works best with a lot of action, however, and the new novel describes...
...thinking is really required: Destiny is far too slick and mechanical for that. True trash buffs like to watch authors sweat over simple declarative sentences. Beauman, 42, who has written a history of the Royal Shakespeare Company, published by Oxford University Press, is not a ninny. During this interminable exercise in the imbecilic, it is possible to perceive a writer who knows better, sneering at her readers and laughing all the way to the exchequer...
...enough that Harvard--a natural-turf team--had to play on Penn's slick artificial surface, made more slick by a steady downpour...