Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slick Six may be the most sophisticated military complex ever built...
Under construction since 1979 and now nearly four-fifths complete, the Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex (SLC 6),* dubbed "Slick Six," is a prodigious arrangement of lofty mobile towers and gaping tunnels, rugged bunkers and squat tanks, covering 150 acres...
...forbids his daughter to listen to rock, but he permits her to wear the clothes of a big-city hooker, a hairdo befitting a glitzy country songstress, 6 lbs. of Maybelline and no bra. The kids in Beaumont have been denied dancing for five years, yet they are as slick as the regulars on Soul Train. Gaffes like these were of little moment in Flashdance; its preposterous story was soft-focused into a modern fable. It matters here, where the young and the middleaged, the traditional Hollywood film and the MTV feature, the music and the dialogue collide instead...
...downhill race. His teammates were jubilant, but no more so than the company that makes his ski boots. The day after Johnson's victory, executives at Swiss-owned Raichle Molitor U.S.A. began planning a new advertising campaign to celebrate the performance of the skier and his gear. The slick ads, picturing Johnson at full tilt, will soon appear in the pages of several ski-industry publications...
...like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair and the sexy swagger of a Vegas lounge star. No wonder Leigh (Alexandra Paul), the prettiest girl on campus, is aswoon over Arnie. But she has tough competition in Christine. Such jealousy: when Leigh suggests that Arnie is too attached to his car, Christine forces the girl...